Last Night The Good Associated … Trump Delenda Est!

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There Surgent: Last Night The Good Associated … Trump Delenda Est!

By Aaron Gardner | February 26, 2016, 07:23pm

 

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

– Edmund Burke

 

I have been using this Burke quote as a call to action against the campaign of Donald Trump since September 11, 2015. As some of you may remember, this was the day that the longest serving Governor for the State of Texas, arguably one of the loudest voices in the nation for the concept of federalism, and a long time champion of the conservative movement, suspended his campaign for the GOP nomination for President of the United States. That was an incredibly tough day for me as a conservative, and as someone who had been a supporter of Governor Perry in 2012 and had a small role on his ill fated 2016 campaign. I hadn’t been paid in over a month and I was already concerned that the conventional wisdom offered in regard to Donald Trump was either woefully naive on the part of Rubio, or too clever by half on the part of Cruz.