[TheRealThing]

Trump is not and he has never been a conservative. Therefore, Trump's nomination over a field that included several genuine conservatives has already damaged the conservative movement. Absent Divine Intervention, Hillary will soundly defeat Trump in November - assuming that he does not drop out of the race before the election - and the conservative movement will survive. Trump's candidacy was a test for conservatives and if you supported his nomination by casting a primary vote for him or by failing to vote against him, then you failed the test and will own the looming Hillary presidency.

Trump is what he is, apart from what you say about him. And considering that you are not, nor have you ever been a prophet, there is no way you can speak conclusively about the future and what a Trump Presidency would mean for this country.

It is odd though. You claim to hold on to genuine conservatism with one hand and #NeverTrump with the other. Which is exactly the modus operandi of John McCain, Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney and other similarly distinguished RINO's and pencil necked pundits on the order of Erikson and Kristol. The company you keep are anything but genuine in my book. Unless you meant genuinely arrogant that is.

The only test that means anything is one which separates rabid ideologues and half assed fortune tellers from folks who love this country and who have skin in the game, having pursued and achieved self dependency and possessing a genuine concern for the 'common good.'