Why I will not vote for Donald Trump
His ignorance, emotional instability, demagogy, solipsism and vindictiveness will do more than result in a failed presidency, and could lead to national catastrophe.
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BEGINNING with Ronald Reagan, I have voted Republican in every presidential election since I first became eligible to vote in 1980. I worked in the Reagan and George H W Bush administrations and in the White House for George W Bush as a speechwriter and adviser. I have also worked for Republican presidential campaigns, although not this time around.
Despite this history, and in important ways because of it, I will not vote for Donald Trump if he wins the Republican nomination. I should add that neither could I vote in good conscience for Hillary Clinton or any of the other Democrats running for president, since they oppose many of the things I have stood for in my career as a conservative - and, in the case of Mrs Clinton, because I consider her an ethical wreck.
If Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton were the Republican and Democratic nominees, I would prefer to vote for a responsible third-party alternative; absent that option, I would simply not cast a ballot for president. A lot of Republicans, I suspect, would do the same.
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