Legendary illusionist and longtime friend-of-Reason Penn Jillette says he swallowed his pride and voted for Clinton in the hotly contested state of Nevada after convincing “about 11 or 12 people” in deep blue states to pull the lever for Gary Johnson in exchange for his vote for the Democratic candidate. Jillette admits he felt “pretty shitty” about casting a vote for someone he doesn’t want to be president, but admits that peer pressure convinced him that Clinton “is not as apt to blow us to kingdom come with nuclear weapons as Trump.”
Former National Lampoon editor, author, and Cato Institute fellow P.J. O’Rourke was an early conservatarian member of the #NeverTrump bandwagon, even if it means voting for “Jimmy Carter in a pantsuit.” Writing in The Daily Beast, O’Rourke declared, “Better the devil you know than the Lord of the Flies on his own 757. Flying to and fro in the earth, with gold-plated seatbelt buckles, talking nativist, isolationist, mercantilist, bigoted, rude, and vulgar crap.” O’Rourke said on NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me he thinks Clinton is “wrong about absolutely everything, but she’s wrong within normal parameters.” He also thinks a Clinton presidency will be an inadvertent “miracle” for conservatives, leading to a “Second Coming” of the GOP.
Three writers at The Washington Post’s libertarian legal blog Volokh Conspiracy each expressed their intention to vote for Clinton as motivated primarily by their aversion to Trump.
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