Here's what the conservative "National Review" says about Trump:

[Nye Bevan]

Of course there have been some highly imperfect people to occupy the Oval Office. But none of their character defects were as readily, overwhelmingly apparent — or, in most cases, anywhere near as serious — as Trump’s.

Trump isn’t just a serial adulterer, but brags about it. Trump isn’t just somebody who looks away when white supremacists make common cause with him; he encourages them, openly retweets their vile messages, and declines numerous requests to disavow them. Trump doesn’t just use sketchy dodges to avoid military service; he insults the service of POWs, takes legal action against veterans trying to hawk street wares outside of his buildings, and says that his equivalent of Vietnam was negotiating the 1970s without contracting venereal disease. Trump openly incites violence at his rallies, doubles down on vile smears of female journalists who complain (rightly) about being improperly grabbed and jolted by his campaign manager, lies with such abandon that media fact checkers literally have trouble keeping up, says the best way to seduce women is to treat them “like sh**,” pretends to have opposed a war he supported, likens one opponent to a child molester, insults the looks of the wife of another opponent, and accuses the same candidate’s father of collaboration with JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

Trump spends an entire career trampling the “ordinary Joe,” tries to force grandmothers and family restaurants off their properties so he can have more room to park limousines, stands believably accused of stiffing immigrant workers (legal and otherwise) of their pensions and other earned payments, curses in public like he’s in a Quentin Tarantino movie, and even suggests that the wives and children of terrorists be deliberately targeted for death.

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Trump is morally, experientially, temperamentally, attitudinally and philosophically unfit for the Oval Office.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner

There's usually not much in this blog that DUers would agree wholeheartedly with. Trump is the rare exception.

[Hoyt]

1. Problem is, we think that is condemnation. There are lots of Americans attracted to that ugly crud.

[ailsagirl]

7. They are still a minority, though

If they were 75% of the electorate, I'd feel very differently

[Hoyt]

8. Hope you are right ,but I'm not so sure.

[montana_hazeleyes]

15. I think there are far more who support him

than people think.

[Aristus]

14. And they don't read the National Review.

Or really, anything...

[Major Nikon]

2. At this point all that remains is damage control

When the wheels inevitably fall off the GOP bandwagon, they can sit back and say I told you so.

[dubyadiprecession]

3. If i was a republican, i would be having panic attacks about trump...

I can just hear them say, "Oh my god, Oh my god, four more years of not getting what we want!! I can't breath!, I'm suffocating!!"
Trump's candidacy is extremely troubling (to say the least) for paul ryan and all the down ballot candidates now being associated with him. He is killing that party.

[sofa king]

4. "What happened to the criminals of conscience?"

Again, we all need to remember that the National Review helped to create the environment which allowed a Donald Trump to come to prominence, and Trump's questionable character is only different by degree from the Bushes, Cheneys, and Nixons of their pantheon.

They hate Trump for refusing to posture while pursuing the exact same goals that they pursue. They hate him for saying out loud what they have always merely hinted.

[maindawg]

9. Thank you

He is doing political performance art . it's satire !

[JHB]

5. Trump is the Birchers' revenge on the Buckley crowd

I forget who said that, but I liked it.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. If they really felt that way they would join in an united front against Trump.

If they really felt that way they would join in an united front against Trump in the same way all the parties in France formed a united front against Le Pen's National Front party.

There must be enough in Trumpism that prevents them from doing so.

[Mary Mac]

10. down in Carolina they are already supporting him

His support is real.

[retrowire]

16. vomits* nt

[libodem]

11. Heard on the radio while driving

That the best reason for a Trump presidency would be his ability to nominate, Ted Cruz, for the Supreme Court.

Think about it.

[ejbr]

12. Wait. I'm confused

How do they really feel?

[bdwker]

13. Well said.

Trump is morally, experientially, temperamentally, attitudinally and philosophically unfit for the Oval Office.

[ErikJ]

17. Good for Trump. The Republican party is morally corrupt to the core and needs to be

shaken up and hopefully broken up.

[callous taoboy]

18. Yet Paul Ryan plays footsie with him. How does NR feel about Mr. Ryan I wonder?