National Review begs GOP voters to turn on 'grotesquely selfish' Trump
The right-wing National Review published an editorial on Wednesday in which it all but begged conservatives to find someone besides former President Donald Trump to be the party's nominee.
The crux of the editorial attacks the common conceit among Trump supporters that the only thing he's done wrong has been to write "mean tweets," and the editors argue that his actions leading up to and during the January 6th Capitol riots are the main argument against his candidacy.
"Because he couldn’t bear to admit that he’d lost to Joe Biden in 2020 (after trailing him in every national poll), Trump insisted he’d won and did everything he could to overturn the result, including trying to bully his vice president into violating his oath and preventing and delaying the counting of the electoral vote," the editors contend. "When a mob, fervently believing Trump’s lies, fought its way into the U.S. Capitol to try to end the count, Trump did little or nothing to try to stop it."
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The editors went on to describe these events as "infamous presidential acts" that "represented serious offenses against our constitutional order" and that cannot be justified.
They then urged their readers to choose either Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis or former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, as the editors said it's hard to imagine either one engaging in "such grotesquely selfish behavior injurious to our republic" as what Trump has done.