Serious acrimony has now broken out among conservatives about whether to vote for Donald Trump. As I've made clear, as of now, I have no intention of voting for Trump. He's personally unpalatable, of course. He's a serial adulterer who brags about sleeping with married women and says he doesn't repent. He's an extreme narcissist with delusion of grandeur. He's not conservative. He thinks Planned Parenthood does great work. He doesn't have coherent foreign policy. He wants to leave entitlement programs in place.

He supports tariffs and government subsidies. He doesn't care if Republicans lose the Senate. He has nothing to say about religious freedom for business owners. And that's just the start. He's volatile and he's nasty. He's mocked prisoners of war and disabled journalists and compared his own sacrifices to those of Gold Star families and gone soft on the KKK,

he lies constantly about nearly everything. Just as importantly, Trump is doing serious brand damage

to conservatism. He's poisoning the well of female voters, look at the polls and minorities and

young people. Many ardent conservatives have been co-opted into lying for him and perverting

their own conservatism in order to stop Hillary Clinton. If Trump wins, he'll turn conservatism into Trumpism. If he loses and conservatives go along for the ride, he'll have sunk conservatism for an entire generation of voters. Not supporting Trump is a perfectly defensible position, but, but, but, but it is a tough call. On the other hand, I totally understand and I fully sympathize with people

who say they have to hold their nose and vote for Trump in order to stop Hillary. She will be a full-scale

disaster. She'll appoint the Fifth Supreme Court Justice to gut the First and Second Amendments.

She will cripple our military. She'll cram down tax increases. She'll use the regulatory

infrastructure to snap the needs of American industry and conduct basically

raids against religious people. Choosing Trump over Hillary is an absolutely perfectly defensible

position, but it is a tough call. Every morning these days, I really do, this is true. I ask myself

the same question. Which is more costly to America? A possible loss of conservatism to Trumpism? Or another four years of Hillary Clinton, another four years of Hillary Clinton's radical destruction, which could deal the death blow to America's freedoms. It's a very serious question. And good people are going to come down on both sides of it. I myself have felt compelled to come down on both sides of it at one time or another.

But acknowledging that the choice isn't easy seems like a stretch for a lot of commentators. Some people insist that if you forego the Trump train, that makes you a traitor. In order to reach that conclusion, they either ignore Trump's foibles or they lie about what a wonderful guy, what a wonderful conservative he is. Some people on the other side, they insist that if you jump on the Trump train, that makes you a traitor.

In order to reach that conclusion, some of them downplay Clinton's evils or exaggerate Trump's riskiness. Here's what does make you a traitor to conservatism. If you lie for Trump or you lie to your audience that he's a serious conservative, lying isn't just non-conservative.'s actually immoral, but neither voting for Trump nor refusing to vote for Trump makes you a traitor to conservatism. Nobody knows the answer to the hypothetical I pose to myself each morning because nobody has a crystal ball. We don't know how bad things will be under Trump. We don't know how bad things will be under Clinton. We don't know what will happen to the future of the conservative movement. But one thing is certain. If we don't recognize that the choice is tough, thanks to Trump's

utterly incomprehensible foolishness and vitriol and Hillary Clinton's radical leftist corruption,

we're not taking the question seriously enough. More importantly, we're destined to go to war

with our own ideological allies after the election is over. And there's no

need for that war. Our war should be on behalf of conservatism. Trump has divided conservatives on the

proper tactics in this election. But once November 9th hits, we're all on the same page again.

We either have to stop leftist policies from President Trump or from President Clinton.

We'll need to be allies. The first step should be recognizing the goodwill of people who fight alongside us,

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