For the first time in 143-years, the Detroit News<\/i> is not endorsing a Republican<\/a> for President.<\/p>\n Today this newspaper does something it has never done in its 143-year history: endorse someone other than the Republican candidate in a presidential contest.<\/p>\n [ … ]<\/p>\n The 2016 nominee offered by the Republican Party rubs hard against the editorial board\u2019s values as conservatives and Americans. Donald Trump is unprincipled, unstable and quite possibly dangerous. He can not be president<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I would have written must not<\/i> instead of can not<\/i>, but their meaning is plain enough.<\/p>\n “Be careful what you wish for — you might get it.”<\/b><\/p>\n Anon.<\/p>\n But … whatever is the point of endorsing the Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson? He was baffled when a reporter asked a question about Aleppo a few weeks back, and just today was unable to name a single foreign leader; from appearances, he lives in a world about the size of a shoebox. I suppose they’re thinking that movement toward Johnson will siphon non-Clinton voters away from Trump, but that seems to me a roundabout way of steering voters the direction they want them to go.<\/p>\n The next president of the United States will be Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump — and Donald Trump must not, ever<\/i>, be president. Better, then, to stick a clothespin on the nose and vote against him directly rather than underhandedly. There are too many ways for cheap tricks and manipulations to go wrong. What is more, Trump must be decisively, unambiguously, repudiated<\/i> — and the loonies must get the message: Your day is over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the first time in 143-years, the Detroit News is not endorsing a Republican for President. Today this newspaper does something it has never done in its 143-year history: endorse someone other than the Republican candidate in a presidential contest. … Continue reading \n
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