It's unthinkable that a person of Trump's calibre and with Trump's insecurities and warped sense of self, would get anywhere near the White House. Even a die-hard Republican like Bret Stephens, a member of the Wall Street Journal's editorial board, says he will never give up his #NeverTrump stance. In late May he told Fareed Zakaria that he "most certainly will not vote for Donald Trump. I will vote for the least left wing opponent to Donald Trump and I will want to make a vote that will make sure he is the biggest loser in presidential history since Alf Landon or going back further. It's important that Donald Trump and what he represents, this 'ethnic conservatism or populism' be so decisively rebuked that the Republican party and Republican voters will forever learn their lesson that they cannot nominate a man so manifestly unqualified to be president in any way shape or form. They have to learn a lesson the way Democrats learned in 72. George Will has said lets have him lose 50 states. Why not Guam, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia too?"
Historian Noam Chomsky put it more succinctly: "Abstaining from voting or voting for a minority candidate, just amounts to a vote for Donald Trump, which I think is a devastating prospect."