Garvey said that the group would still “continue the fight against liberal overreach on campus” and campaign for down-ballot Republicans.
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The decision was solidified, the club said, by Trump’s rough week in the wake of the Democratic National Convention, which included a feud with the family of a fallen Muslim soldier who served in Iraq.
Donald Trump holds views that are antithetical to our values not only as Republicans, but as Americans.
It should also be noted that while the Harvard Republican Club will not be endorsing Donald Trump, the group has not offered their endorsement to Hillary Clinton or any other candidate.
“His authoritarian tendencies and flirtations with fascism are unparallelled in the history of our democracy”.
The message concludes with a flourish, misquoting 19th century French writer Alexis de Tocqueville.
“Trump calls for the building of a wall, defaming and slandering Mexican people-well, what if we turn his words against him, and wall him in?”
“Tocqueville once said, ‘America is great because she is good”.
Notably, that is actually a fake Tocqueville quote, a fact seized upon by Kirk Jing, president of Harvard Law School’s Republican group.
Lashing out at Trump, the Club said he “simply” does not possess the “temperament and character” necessary to lead the U.S. through an “increasingly perilous world” and in response to any “slight-perceived or real”, he lashes out “viciously and irresponsibly”.
It is interesting how one of the oldest and most prestigious Republican organizations is taking a stand against the real estate mogul, but party leaders – particularly Ryan and McCain – refuse to do the same. “It fittingly concludes with a fake quote from Tocqueville, misrepresenting both him and Trump to contort reality into fitting ideological clichés”.
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The Republican Club polled its members earlier this week and found that 10 percent of Harvard Republicans intend to support Trump for president, while an “overwhelming majority”-80 percent of polled club members-indicated they would not support the party nominee and 10 percent remained undecided”.
