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“Trump is making it more and more clear he doesn’t care if people think he’s racist,” Matthew Wilson, associate professor of political science

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Originally Posted: June 10, 2016

‘Never Trump’ leaders try to prod Mitt Romney by insisting he can be the next … Martin Van Buren

Weekly Standard editor and “Never Trump” leaderĀ William Kristol has begged for months. But everyone he’s approached to take on an independent conservative presidential run has said no.

Kristol remains determined to keep presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump out of the White House. So now he’s turned writer Jay Cost loose with a unique argument aimed at Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican Party standard-bearer who has been vocal in his opposition to Trump. Writes Cost in the Weekly Standard:

“The nation needs a candidate to defend what Martin Van Buren once called ‘plain republicanism,’ and to do so regardless of the chances of victory. Van Buren himself furnishes an inspiring example.” READ MORE