A POSITIVE CASE FOR VOTING REPUBLICAN.

I will not vote for any Democrats this year, or perhaps ever again, because of the lawfare, the corruption, and the party's disregard for bourgeois norms.

Now comes Powerline contributor Steven Hayward, calling attention to an endorsement by professors of the Republican presidential ticket.

We believe that, by and large, it is bad to governmentalize social affairs, and that it is good to degovernmentalize social affairs. One must oppose undue centralization in the economic realm but also threats to the precious rights of free association, religious liberty, and free speech.

We believe that Republicans are, in most instances, less inclined to governmentalize, and more inclined to degovernmentalize, than Democrats. Republicans are less inclined to threaten fundamental liberties. That is one reason why we believe that Republicans should be favored over Democrats.

I'm not sure how one can square "degovernmentalize social affairs" with both parties actively governmentalizing abortion policy at the national level these days; and "fundamental liberties" are very much a contested part of what "freedom" means these days.  That noted, it is the Jarrett regency that has been introducing ever more centralization in the economic realm whilst undermining religious liberty in the name of public health and undermining free speech under the rubric of suppressing "misinformation."  And yes, Democrats bypassing the presidential primaries in three straight cycles does look like an inclination to threaten fundamental liberties, if that Independence Hall speech as staged by Albert Speer and filmed by Leni Riefenstahl wasn't warning enough.