I've been hearing from people worried that RFK, by endorsing Donald Trump and bringing over his voters, will damage the MAGA movement. No matter how well-intentioned these worriers are, they’re wrong. RFK’s endorsement and Trump’s willingness to embrace RFK and his voters can help MAGA win. They will not destroy MAGA. Here are three reasons:

One. The number of RFK voters is very small. They matter in this election because the race is so close. That is, even a small shift in the electorate can affect the outcome. However, given their small numbers, once the election is in place, while they can argue their cases as to matters about which MAGA and RFK voters disagree—because we still live in a free country—they cannot take over the party or the country.

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Two. This is a binary election. Either Kamala wins or Trump wins. If Kamala wins, it’s all over anyway. Although Kamala tries to obscure her past statements and conduct, the Democrats have been explicit about their goals.

Democrats intend to begin with steps to achieve permanent dominance by getting as many illegal aliens onto the voting rolls as possible, packing the Supreme Court, ending the filibuster, and adding Puerto Rico and D.C. as states. (And no, it doesn’t matter to them that the Constitution prohibits adding D.C. as a state. Once they pack the Supreme Court, there are no brakes.)

Once they control the government, Democrats have a bunch of policy plans to implement: Prosecuting/persecuting political enemies on a scale well beyond Trump and his inner circle, unlimited federalized abortion, socialized medicine (all access, no actual care), control of all news and internet communications, the end of fossil fuel, bugs not meat, the end of Israel, the elevation of Islamic ideas within America, empowering Iran, ceding more power to the UN, open borders, a government system that hands out money based on race and “sexual identity,” increasingly high taxes, continuing to use the military as a social justice petri dish, etc. Again, they’ve been explicit about every one of these things.  

That’s what the election means. I’m not ready to worry about RFK’s relatively small number of voters staging a coup against the Republican party when my first worry is just making sure Kamala doesn’t win. In times like this, you take the allies you’ve got, not the allies you wish you had. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Three. There’s no doubt that RFK is a Democrat who still likes some Democrat policies, as do his followers. These would include believing in climate change and supporting abortion. These should not be determinative.

Climate change is falling out of favor with people as they realize that the apocalypse is always threatened but never arrives (see, e.g., elections in Germany). Moreover, it’s possible that people are realizing that there are more pressing concerns than a climate change collapse that never happens, things such as Islamic terrorism and the Sharia takeover of the West.

Then there’s the abortion question. In the neighborhood where I raised my children, most families were conservative in their values: They wanted strong borders, low taxes, low crime, strong family structure, etc. However, the women wanted abortion to remain, and that was what led their voting decisions.

It’s these voters to whom Trump is speaking when he says he’s not touching abortion, not because he doesn’t care about it, but because it’s no longer a federal issue. For once, these conservative pro-abortion people can vote for their conservative values rather than abortion.

In other words, these people are me twenty years ago and Reagan sixty years ago. Remember when Reagan said, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party; the Democratic Party left me”? That’s how I felt by 2004. I’d become increasingly disaffected from the party in the 1990s and, a few years after 9/11, I was disgusted with the Democrats. I voted for Bush over Kerry and never looked back. 

Back then, I was still pro-abortion, but moving in pro-life circles helped me understand that the anti-abortion movement isn’t just a bunch of crazed religious fanatics trying to control a woman’s body. Instead, it’s people who genuinely care about all life and who recognize that America has committed ten Holocausts (and counting) since 1973. That changed me. It will change others.

I’ll leave you with a post from Amaryllis Fox explaining that her journey to RFK and now to Trump came about because the Democrat party left her through incompetence and core anti-Americanism—those constitutional values that many RFK voters strongly support. At least for this election, she’s willing to go with President Trump as the person who will best serve these values.

For those asking how, as a former Democrat, I could support Robert F Kennedy Jr’s endorsement of President Trump, please try to consider the following with an open mind:

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— Amaryllis Fox (@amaryllisfox) August 28, 2024