Their objections are not only that he is no conservative and would break the firm conservative hold on the Republican Party.
Against Trump
It is unpopular to say in the year of the “outsider,” but it is not a recommendation that Trump has never held public office.
Since 1984, when Jesse Jackson ran for president with no credential other than a great flow of words, both parties have been infested by candidates who have treated the presidency as an entry-level position.
They are the excrescences of instant-hit media culture.
The burdens and intricacies of leadership are special; experience in other fields is not transferable.
That is why all American presidents have been politicians, or generals.
Any candidate can promise the moon.
But politicians have records of success, failure, or plain backsliding by which their promises may be judged.
Trump can try to make his blankness a virtue by calling it a kind of innocence.
But he is like a man with no credit history applying for a mortgage — or, in this case, applying to manage a $3.8 trillion budget and the most fearsome military on earth.
One advantage of representative government over direct democracy is that it puts power in the hands of professionals who are smarter, better educated, and perforce much more politically savvy than the people as a whole.
Another is that it strengthens the hand of the "haves" as opposed to the "have nots," essential for orderly government of any society in which equality of income and public ownership of all means of production do not obtain.
Amateurs short out that circuit, even when it's not a case of democracy itself being threatened or even destroyed by demagogues enjoying the enthusiastic support of the masses.
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