I signed the Never Trump letter in 2016 (though I would have written it differently) and I voted for a third-party candidate (as I had in a prior election).

In 2020, I voted for Donald Trump hoping to extend the tenure of his superb national security team that transformed U.S. China-Taiwan policy (despite Trump’s own shallow and erratic views) and to forestall the return of Clinton and Obama foreign policy officials. I will not vote for Trump again — among many other reasons, his redeeming national security staff cannot be reassembled and his ingratiating posture toward Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin and disdain for Taiwan and Ukraine have grown worse since 2020.

I voted for Nikki Haley in the 2024 D.C. primary and looked forward to supporting her as the Republican nominee. But beyond Trump’s core supporters, Democrats refused to take advantage of open Republican primaries to help Haley block Trump. With that option gone, barring some dramatic turn of events, I will vote for the No Labels candidate.

Biden and Kamala Harris seem especially unsuited for these perilous times, though Biden rejects concerns over his advanced age and evidence of diminished mental acuity.

Presumably, he was in full possession of his faculties when he ordered the disastrous abandonment of Afghanistan; when he failed to deter Russia’s invasion of Ukraine after boasting for months that he knew it was coming; when he allowed a Chinese spy balloon to collect intelligence from multiple sensitive U.S. sites; and when he, like........

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