Cinfici Has Been Polled Yet Again

I was polled a couple weeks ago for the presidential election, as I have been many times over the years. Having a landline makes me a prime target of pollsters. I gave unfavorable ratings of both major party candidates, except I gave some foreign policy credit to the incumbent President (there was no option provided to give credit for defense, or I would have). For liberal Democratic President Joe Biden, I responded that his policies in general were the reason for the unfavorable rating and for populist Donald Trump, the options for the reasons included “personality” and “legal problems,” but did not include “character,” which I would have chosen for the Republican who dodged the draft through fraud, broke his marriage vow with each of his three wives, cheated in business and taxes, lied about not doing business with Russia during his campaign, engaged in or accepted other election fraud (even from a hostile foreign power), and was never able to put America’s interests, which he does not understand, above his own. Therefore, I chose “foreign policy” as the next best alternative. I responded that I intend not to vote for either one of them or leftwing anti-vaccine kook Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who was the only other named option, but some other candidate, like many other conservatives following their consciences. I had voted in the Pennsylvania Presidential Primary last month for another GOP candidate, who received a respectable result without contesting the election and I continue not to vote for Trumpist candidates in primaries or general elections. As I have posted, Trumpism is a mix of protectionism, nativism and isolationism, while Trump’s character leads to dishonesty, corruption, cruelty and authoritarianism that also typify Trumpism. Because it is a cancer on the conservative movement and a mortal threat to the Republican Party, it must be excised completely by both.