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We aren’t native Montanans, having moved to Red Lodge in 1998. But over 18 years, it’s appeared to us that Montanans value maturity, responsibility and restraint.

As such, it makes sense for Montana voters to deliver a resounding loss to Donald Trump in November.

At first, Trump’s claim that he alone can fix Washington may seem refreshingly independent. But his ignorance of government process and international realities should be alarming to anyone who understands that change requires knowing how things actually are now. The Montanans we know have a good sense of when someone doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

Trump complains that “they’re unfair to me” — the courts, the media, his Republican primary opponents. The Montanans we know rise to their responsibilities and accept the consequences. We don’t know Montanans who continually call attention to themselves, put their personal victories ahead of all else and threaten those who disagree.

We are by no means enthusiastic about Hillary Clinton, who has been disingenuous at best on important issues. Nor are we complacent about upheaval in the world. But we prefer a president who’s been praised by Republicans for working across the aisle, as Clinton has been, over a president who can’t get along, even in his own sandbox.