re: #23 jaunte

David Frum making a good case on The Last Word for conservatives to vote for Clinton.
Paraphrasing: She will not use the power of the State to punish enemies or enrich herself. The same cannot be said of Donald Trump.

Frum wrote an article in the Atlantic on this.

I found the following sobering:

The lesson Trump has taught is not only that certain Republican dogmas have passed out of date, but that American democracy itself is much more vulnerable than anyone would have believed only 24 months ago. Incredibly, a country that—through wars and depression—so magnificently resisted the authoritarian temptations of the mid-20th century has half-yielded to a more farcical version of that same threat without any of the same excuse. The hungry and houseless Americans of the Great Depression sustained a constitutional republic. How shameful that the Americans of today—so vastly better off in so many ways, despite their undoubted problems—have done so much less well.