Conservative Yes, Trump No

In dinner conversation at Selby's, Menlo Park, CA on 12 October 2022, one of our group of seven's diners, not holding back, said that DJT should not be the Pub party's nominee for president in 2024. This person, who held a very senior role in Bush (W) administration, cited Trump's mercurial personality, narcissism, and overall lack of foreign policy and government knowledge as reasons for not supporting DJT. There was reaction from some diners, benign and non-confrontational, to be sure, to the effect that DJT had put some strong points on the board notwithstanding the tsunami of resistance by the left to his presidency. I was to learn, as I drifted through the dinners and cocktails of the Hoover Fall Retreat over the next two days, that many I interacted with hold a "conservative-policy-good-but-not-DJT" view of the 2024 presidential election.