This election, the constitution loses.
With the landscape of the electoral college, a victory for Republicans is already an uphill climb. But Trump...he wears "Republican" like a costume, ready to toss aside as soon as the occasion no longer suits.
Clinton is an enemy to gun ownership, that is a fact...but she is a visible enemy, a known one. If elected, our "side" will have a potent symbol to remain vigilant.
But Trump is also an enemy to gun ownership...the kind of guy that will make assurances far and wide that our rights are secure even as he signs them away in the dark.
A vote for Trump doesn't save our republic...instead of a few years of predictable, deflectable lunacy, we get a wild card with just as many underground political ties and skeletons as the Clintons.
Yay.
Why is it that those who apparently cleave to the belief in an all-powerful presidency free to impose its will upon America (if Trump happens to win) apparently also believe in the effective checks and balances embodied in our congresspersons to keep bad things at bay (if Hitlery happens to win).
Is this not the very definition of cognitive dissonance