The Trump Temptation

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Donald Trump awakened this morning to a Wall Street Journal editorial, “The Third-Party Temptation,” warning against the search for an independent candidate who “would give conservatives an honorable alternative to Trump-Hillary.” The Journal in effect called on all concerned to (grudgingly) accept the choice of “the millions of Republicans who have voted for Mr. Trump.”

Trump wasted no time in showing that the Journal is wrong. He reminded us why serious people, including serious conservatives, cannot acquiesce in Donald Trump as their candidate.

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