Your SCOTUS Excuse For Supporting Trump Is Weak and Totally Irrelevant

Source: RedState | May 30, 2016 | Ben Howe

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Here at RedState, the case was made that we should just go ahead and confirm Merrick Garland so as to avoid the disaster that could come via either a Hillary or a Trump led nomination.

So the Trump camp, after securing the nomination, released a list of potential conservative justices that would make the most ardent anti-Trumper excited at the prospect of a Trump circus running the show.

And as expected, this has now become the intellectual escape hatch for many people who would otherwise rather have their naked bodies dragged over broken glass than pull the lever for the orange-headed charlatan who even admits his list was merely a suggestion and he’s not bound to it in any way.

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Every time I or anyone else brings up our unwillingness to pull the lever for Trump, we’re told we’re giving away the Supreme Court. We’re surrendering in the fight over abortion and the 2nd amendment.

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I’ve been told more times than I can count that we know how Hillary will nominate but we have no idea how Trump will. So if I’m understanding them correctly, a bad but steady paycheck is worse than gambling your life savings. Seems weird, but are they even right?

I mean, what if Donald Trump is elected and his very first action is to nominate the most conservative, originalist, right-wing, pro-life, gun-toting justice you’ve ever laid eyes on? Wouldn’t that alone be enough to push for Trump’s presidency?

The first thing I find interesting about this line of thinking is how similar it is to the defining reason Trump is where he is. Trump’s rise has rested almost exclusively on building a wall on our southern border.

If you asked many of the throngs of his sycophants and drone-ish fans why they love him, they’d name the wall, every time. They would probably know just about nothing else about his immigration plans. They would just know “Wall = safety = good… me like Trump!”

I’ve had several Trumpanzees tell me that even if Donald Trump is a socialist marxist who institutes death camps for religious people, the fact that he will have built a wall would make him the greatest president in history.

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So many of those anti-Trump dissenters I mentioned, who will now support Trump purely because of his furture SCOTUS powers, mocked such a simplistic view of the world. They had no use for people who couldn’t see the larger picture. They scolded simpletons who couldn’t comprehend that one policy alone doesn’t supersede all others.

But even if it did, how would this play out? How does Trump get this amazing nominee that saves all of our butts from having having guns rounded up at annual mandatory abortion procedures confirmed?

Simple: He won’t.

Trump can say whatever he wants right now but, unless you’ve not been paying attention, “saying stuff” is one thing he does, and he does it a lot. Importantly, the other thing he does is ignore whatever he said previously in favor of whatever is most expedient at the moment and gets him his “win.” Because that’s all he cares about. Appearing to win. Whatever that looks like. Whatever it means. Whoever he has to screw over to get there. Winning and the appearance of success is all he cares about.

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