The Election to end all Elections

Trump, imperfect as he is, is like a finger in a dike that, if removed, would loose a deluge. On September 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93's passengers defied armed hijackers and fought to take over the cockpit regardless of danger or odds because they realized that certain death was the alternative. Michael Anton's 2016 essay "The Flight 93 Election," written for the Claremont Review of Books and later expanded into a book, argued that although Americans did not know what kind of president Donald Trump would be, they should risk all to elect him because they could be very sure that the alternative would be our republic's death.

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