Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger is at it again. Initially elected to office in 2010 as a Republican, the election of Donald Trump as president in 2016 seemingly broke the congressman from Illinois. Since then, he’s developed an unhealthy obsession with Trump and his supporters, frequently making arrogant or degrading comments about both. It’s only fitting then that at the Principles First Summit last weekend, Kinzinger showed he did not have any.
“But I’m gonna tell you, right off the bat, if it’s Trump against Biden, I’m going to vote for Biden,” Kinzinger said. “Because to me, this is what I think is important — like, I can disagree with a lot of stuff, but democracy is truly at stake here.”
Concerns about democracy being at stake are nothing more than left-wing-inspired hyperbolic hysteria. It’s not grounded in any reality. But if Kinzinger does have legitimate concerns about threats to democracy, he should turn his attention to Democrats. They are the ones who have sought to squash individual liberties. From social media censorship to the proposed Soviet-esque disinformation czar, it’s not MAGA Republicans doing everything possible to censor, suppress, and eliminate dissenting viewpoints.
Furthermore, by admitting that he would vote for President Joe Biden over Trump, he is also acknowledging that he never really cared about conservative values, or at least not since Trump entered politics. It would be truly impossible for genuine and true conservative Republicans to vote for a politician who supports reckless fiscal irresponsibility, the administration’s institutional abandonment of border security, radical gender ideology, the killing of the unborn, and the radical and toxic ideology of diversity, equity, and inclusion, among other left-wing extremist ideals.
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It’s one thing to dislike Trump and not want to vote for him. That is every voter’s right. While I would strongly disagree with doing so (if Trump is the GOP nominee) because not voting for Trump helps Biden and his extremist left-wing agenda succeed, it’s at least understandable. However, voting for Biden instead of abstaining means a de facto support of a political platform that is the exact opposite of what Republicans support. Anyone doing so might as well update the political party to Democrat on his or her voter registration.
If any “conservative” or “Republican” could vote for Biden over Trump, then such voters were never really “conservative” or “Republican” to begin with. They were just really Democrats who supported many of the Left’s social values but sought fiscal conservative policies mainly because they didn’t want to pay high taxes. A person can’t legitimately claim he or she is a true conservative Republican, or arguably, a decent American, and state that he or she will vote for Biden over Trump.