New York Times columnist and self-taught psychiatrist David Brooks says there’s no way he can vote to reelect Donald Trump in 2020. But without even knowing it, he just made the best case possible for ensuring that Trump gets another four years in office.

Brooks is one of those conservatives who isn’t really concerned with politics so much as he is with assessing the “character” and “virtue” and “principles” of every Republican who runs for something. And so winning an election or passing a conservative agenda in Congress is always kind of beside the point for Brooks. What’s important to him is that even if every Republican who runs for president from now on loses, well, at least Brooks will be able to say each one of them was a good egg.