Hillary’s PAC Men

As the GOP convention nears, Republican-tied super PACs working to prevent Donald Trump’s nomination are effectively working to ensure Hillary Clinton’s election.

The anti-Trump PACs must accept this reality, and accept that at this point the distinction between NeverTrump and CertainlyClinton is mere semantics.

With less than five months to go until election day, the odds of an independent or “white knight” GOP candidate descending from the heavens to save Establishment neocons and stubborn conservative die-hards from the populist machinations of Donald Trump are practically zero.

The anti-Trump PACs must accept this reality, and accept that at this point the distinctions between NeverTrump and CertainlyClinton are mere semantics — like it or not, they are actively working to achieve a Clinton victory in November.

The Supreme Court’s consequential decisions in Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt and Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin on Monday only highlight the stakes of this election.

In the Hellerstedt decision, states were effectively stripped of their right to regulate abortion clinics like medical clinics, laying the potential groundwork for the proliferation of unsanitary and under-regulated abortion clinics which put women’s lives at risk. In Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the court gave legal sanction to blatant racial discrimination against white people.

[lz_table title=”GOP-Affiliated Anti-Trump PACs” source=”OpenSecrets,Politico”]PAC Name
Our Principles PAC
NeverTrump PAC
Better for America PAC
Stop Donald Trump PAC
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Both of these disastrous decisions undermine completely the desire for a clear conservative conscience as a defensible pretense for not voting for Trump.

For nothing should gnaw at the conservative conscience more than the prospect of an activist left-wing Supreme Court unleashed on the Constitution. Nothing should strike more terror in the hearts of those who claim to care for America and her founding principles than the notion of unrestrained legal assaults on the Bill of Rights.

“America cannot afford another four years of a liberal in the White House — Donald Trump is just that,” claims the Stop Donald Trump PAC. But while Trump’s conservative bona fides are suspicious, Clinton’s liberal ones are unquestionable.

“As Thomas Jefferson said, ‘In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock,'” reads the mission statement of Our Principles PAC, the leading Republican-affiliated, anti-Trump super PAC.

But the fact is that Trump has pledged to put conservatives on the bench, and while we cannot be certain of how he would govern, we can be entirely certain of the way in which Clinton would govern.

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“It seems to me that the #NeverTrump conservatives want to remain morally pure,” wrote respected conservative talk show host and columnist Dennis Praeger. “I understand that temptation. I am tempted, too. But if you wish to vanquish the bad, it is not possible — at least not on this side of the afterlife — to remain pure.”

The next president could very well have the opportunity to make two appointments to the Supreme Court, potentially altering its ideological balance for years to come. The next decade will likely see important decisions on a variety of issues — from religious liberty, to the Second Amendment, to immigration — that will have significant and lasting consequences for the country.

Conservatives involved in the #NeverTrump movement may claim their “principled” opposition to the unpredictable business mogul helps them sleep at night, but it could also ensure they awake to a conservative’s nightmare.