i signed I never have playing cards When I wrote the letter in 2016 (though I would have written it differently), I voted for a third-party candidate (as I did in the last election).
In 2020, I voted for Donald Trump in hopes of extending the term of his excellent, transformative national security team. US China-Taiwan policy (Despite Trump’s own opinion, a shallow and unstable view) and to prevent the return of Clinton and Obama’s diplomatic officials. I will never vote for Trump again.Among many other reasons, his inability to reassemble his national security staff A mesmerizing posture To Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, contempt That’s because Taiwan and Ukraine have gotten even worse since 2020.
I voted for Nikki Haley in the 2024 DC primary and was looking forward to supporting her as the Republican candidate. But beyond Trump’s core supporters, Democrats refused to use the open Republican primary to help Haley stop Trump. Now that that option is gone, I will vote for the unlabeled candidate unless something dramatic happens.
Biden and Kamala Harris seem particularly ill-suited to these dangerous times, but Biden has dismissed concerns about his comments. Evidence of advanced age and declining mental acuity.
Presumably, he was in full control of his faculties when he gave the command. Afghanistan’s tragic abandonment; when, despite months of boasting, he was unable to stop Russia from invading Ukraine. knew it was coming; when he allows it Chinese spy balloon Gather information from multiple classified sites in the United States. And he like playing cardsleft behind top secret government documents been exposed for years In unauthorized private places. And regardless of whether Biden’s current mental state is in decline, Obama’s Secretary of Defense Robert Gates indicted him long ago. Decades of unsound national security decisions.
No Labels offers a potential alternative. Haley has said she plans to remain a Republican. I have no interest in third party management.it’s time for her and No Labels to join forces with a shared vision of a non-Trump, non-Biden America.
People think Trump’s chances of being re-elected are even more frightening than four more years of Biden or Harris. protest They argued that no-label candidates would split the vote in favor of Biden and ensure Trump’s return to power. In reality, if the bipartisan “No Label,” led by Haley and other moderately conservative Republicans, is joined by centrist Democrats with strong national security beliefs, at least Trump’s It is likely to garner votes.
Potentially, it would garner enough votes from both candidates to win outright. History of useless third-party candidates Serves only as a spoiler. Given the low public opinion of both Trump and Biden, it seems likely that a historic realignment of political parties will occur in 2024 and that the No Labels will win outright.
The specter of Biden vs. Trump is currently discouraging American voters and further dividing the country comparison called to the pre-Civil War era. Beyond its borders, the United States is at odds with itself and inviting exploitation by enemies of the U.S.-led international order.
Russian Two invasions of Ukraine Spanning the Obama-Biden and Biden-Harris administrations Hamas-Israel war Fueled by Iran’s radical anti-Western Islamism It is already diverting resources and distracting Washington.
Communist China continues to increase military pressure Against TaiwanAmerica’s security partners, and our The Philippines is a treaty ally. To further distract, China’s malicious junior partner, North Korea,The United States has begun further missile and nuclear tests, demonstrating an aggressive stance. against Korea and Japan.
President Trump clearly lacks a geopolitical and moral vision for dealing with these existential threats to Western interests and values, a vision he hardly shares. He has a strange fascination with authoritarian leaders who expose these threats. personally welcome Hungarian Viktor Orbán, a friend of President Putin, visited Mar-a-Lago last week.
Biden, by contrast, is at least a man of his word. What he expresses is correct rhetoric On the global struggle between democracy and tyranny, succeeded in rallying Western countries to support besieged Ukraine Against the common Russian threat.
But long before Trump, Directed allies in Congress to block the flow of critically needed arms and ammunition into UkraineBiden is Reluctant and Expandable Weapons Provider. For the past two years, he has resisted providing any major weapons systems that Ukraine urgently needed, fearing it would provoke Russian escalation.
Biden’s cowardly hesitation hurt Ukraine the unnecessary deaths of tens of thousands of military and civilians;. Initially, a lack of advanced tanks, and then a lack of aircraft and long-range air defense, severely hampered Ukraine’s ability to retake Russian-occupied territory. The long-awaited counterattack has failed, and the Russian military is once again invading with new results.
The neo-isolationist stance of Trump-obedient House Republicans has now pushed the situation in Ukraine to such an extreme that they are denying it even basic military resources such as ammunition.blindly participate Enabling Putin’s expansionist strategyMAGA effectively became MARGA —Make Russia Great Again.
Trump and his obedient supporters have lost any claim to Republican superiority in foreign policy and recklessly betrayed the philosophy of Ronald Reagan. peace through power.
Ms. Haley’s No Labels presidential ticket — which, if she doesn’t, will be led by another national security-strong Republican — could reclaim its patriotic mantle. America cannot become great again if we abandon our friends and allies as enemies of the international order. Mr. Biden has partially followed Mr. Trump’s lead, doing just that in Afghanistan, and Mr. Trump and his colleagues in Congress are trying to do it with Ukraine and perhaps NATO as well. Ukraine, America, and the world deserve better.
As Haley often said in her campaign, we have a country to save. That’s still the case today.
joseph bosco He served as the Secretary of Defense’s Director of China Affairs from 2005 to 2006 and as the Director of the Asia-Pacific Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief from 2009 to 2010.
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