The case for Gary Johnson

In any event, whether or not he can win, there are three good reasons to back Governor Veto on principle.

First, it would show that there are still Americans who care about what ought to be the central issue in politics, an issue that is becoming dull through familiarity and has been overlooked among the shenanigans of the primaries, but that has not gone away, namely the incredible fact that the federal government is more than $19 trillion in debt.

Second, it would allow people to participate in this election without, as it were, soiling their hands. They could carry out their civic obligation in good conscience.

Third, someone has to make the case for free enterprise and limited government. It is bad enough that Donald Trump has succeeded in his hostile takeover of the GOP. But if the wider conservative movement doesn’t take a stand, then the entire American Right will become tainted with his brand of foul-mouthed nativism. And that, my friends, wouldn’t be just America’s tragedy; it would be the world’s.