From: NewNowNext
We rolled our eyes when gay vlogger Kyle Kittleson announced he was backing Donald Trump for president.
But now adult film actor Jesse Jackman has also “come out” in support of the Donald—but for completely different reasons.
Kittleson claimed Trump was the most gay-friendly Republican candidate—citing his support for workplace anti-discrimination laws and same-sex relationship protections.
Jackman, meanwhile, just wants to throw a monkey wrench in the GOP’s designs on the White House. And he has a point.
Multiple polls suggest both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders would stand up better against Trump than Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio or any other major Republican Candidate.
“For either Democratic candidate, Trump proves to be the most favorable—and desirable—matchup.”
During the 2008 primary, right-wing shock jock Rush Limbaugh deployed a similar tactic, dubbed “Operation Chaos,” in which he encouraged conservative listeners in states with open primaries to vote for Clinton, to slow Obama’s surge.
Jackman cites a Huffington Post article indicating “approximately 25% of Clinton’s voters in Mississippi were Republicans voting for a candidate they hate in order to try to undermine Barack Obama,” and reports similar results in Texas and Ohio.
A Trump nomination would have another benefit, according to Jackman.
“Some GOP strategists fear that some Republican voters would be so disenchanted with (or appalled by) Trump that they might not vote in the election at all, leading to down-ticket victories for the Democrats by attrition.”
Unlike Kittleson, Jackman says he disagrees with Trump “ideologically in virtually every respect.”
“I believe that his policies and proposals would ruin the strength and integrity of our great nation, undermine the fundamental tenets of our democracy, and make us the laughing stock of the international community (except, perhaps, for Vladimir Putin).
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