@Baruch D
Your argument about Trump destroying the republican party is 1000% correct. All its values both morally and economically are gone. And they were mostly good values. You are also correct in your point about promoting radcial right wingers.
Where I disagree with you is on Israel and the fact that right now the right is as bad as the left. I think right now its such an emergency that we need to focus on the present and not the future. Right now its the left thats obstructing the war in Gaza. The college campuses and the luny squad directly influenced Biden whereby he blocked arms shipments and condemned Israel at times. (To be clear Biden was well intended and an Ohev yisroel). And the way Schumer treated Bibi the PM of Israel when he came to the USA, that was unquestionably influenced by free Palestine. To say that it doesn’t have repercussions and doesn’t embolden Hamas is just factually not realistic. The same is true when Biden didn’t let israel to into Rafah right away. Who knows how many IDF soilders were lost because it emboldened Hamas and gave them a chance to arm up, let alone maybe we would have gotten hostages out quicker if we fought that war quicker without hands tied consistently.
Having a president that tells the world the way it is with his Gaza plan and lets them know we know this is a charade and that all 2M palestinains in gaza are terrorists and inhuman. All of that is very very crucial to win this war. 3/4 of this is image. Trump let the world know just what anaimls they were for Bibas and the holocaust survivior hostages. These ideas and bluntness is important.
To your point of emboldening the left so far thats a mixed bag. The past elctions actaully silenced the left. I think all of the Squad candidates lost including that seat in the Bronx and others. On the other hand for the sake of honesty, i will admit that Canada seemed to have elected a real lefite now thanks to Trump. So its a mixed bag.
All in all, I mostly agree with you that trump is bad. But I think the animosity for anything Trump can cloud judgement. Just like the pro Maga see nothing wrong ever. And I think that many of the never trump folks are faling into that same trap. The trump pro Israel stance despite the sticky points like direct negotiations are blaring and its life and death for klal yisorel. Once this war ends I am with you in the never Trump camp.