And in no uncertain terms:

Personally, I’ve thrown up my hands in despair at the debased state of the GOP. I don’t want to be identified with the party of the child-snatchers. .. …a vote for the GOP in November is also a vote for egregious obstruction of justice, rampant conflicts of interest, the demonization of minorities, the debasement of political discourse, the alienation of America’s allies, the end of free trade and the appeasement of dictators. That is why I join Will and other principled conservatives, both current and former Republicans, in rooting for a Democratic takeover of both houses in November. Like postwar Germany and Japan, the Republican Party must be destroyed before it can be rebuilt.

The GOP must be de-Nazified and de-Axisfied, get it? Because of course what’s happening now in the US with Republicans is exactly like that, and the Democrats are kind of like the Allies.

I bow to no one in my discussion of Trump’s flaws, but I recognize his strengths—particularly since taking office. I have seen no obstruction of justice, egregious or otherwise. Rampant conflicts of interest are part and parcel of Democrats, more so even than Republicans, and certainly part of politics in general. Republicans are not demonizing minorities—if Boot were to pay attention to what is actually being said for the most part rather than what his MSM colleagues say is being said. As for allies being alienated—well, it depends on the allies (Eastern Europe seems rather happy). And allies would disagree with the policies of any robust GOP, even if Will and Boot designed that policy. I’m not too happy with the trade situation, but I’m willing to see what happens, and I certainly don’t put “free trade” on a pedestal either. As for “appeasement of dictators”—that’s what I saw with Obama, not Trump. In fact, the Democrats Boot wishes to put in power don’t just appease dictators, they revere and wish to emulate them.

What is it with these guys, Boot and Will and their ilk? Their revulsion to Trump is so great that they have joined forces with people they have worked against their entire lives—Democrats, liberals, and particularly the left, which, if Boot has been paying any attention lately, has taken over the Democratic Party.

I understand Trump-revulsion—particularly in people who consider themselves to be elite, who are prone to virtue-signaling, who work in an otherwise-liberal environment, who care a lot about style and being intellectuals, and who are susceptible to emotional appeals about children in “cages” (temporarily, and also under Obama, by the way). But I fail to understand this idea that empowering the Democrats is a great way to deal with it.

I think people like Boot and Will feel trapped between two awful alternatives. It’s what’s called an avoidance-avoidance conflict in the psych biz. Their Trump-avoidant gradient seems to be so steep that they cannot countenance anything to do with him, and they see no other alternative than supporting Democrats.

Boot and Will must turn on their former allies who do not share their revulsion. If Trump is evil, therefore anyone who supports him is evil, therefore those who oppose him (Democrats) must be friends: the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

[NOTE: Here’s my previous piece on George Will and his similar declarations.]

[NOTE II: And I wrote more on the topic of Boot and other Never Trumpers today, July 7: Hero worship and politics, persons vs. principles.]