Republican voters, the New York Times editorial board believes it is your “responsibility” to vote against former President Donald Trump. In a recent op-ed, the board went on a ponderous diatribe explaining why it is your duty to make sure the Orange Man What Is Bad™ does not receive the Republican presidential nomination.

In the piece, the board asserted that GOP voters have a duty “to nominate a candidate who is fit to serve as president, one who will “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” To them, this means not supporting the former president.

Donald Trump, who has proved himself unwilling to do so, is manifestly unworthy. He is facing criminal trials for his conduct as a candidate in 2016, as president and as a former president. In this, his third presidential bid, he has intensified his multiyear campaign to undermine the rule of law and the democratic process. He has said that if elected, he will behave like a dictator on “Day 1” and that he will direct the Justice Department to investigate his political rivals and his critics in the media, declaring that the greatest dangers to the nation come “not from abroad, but from within.”

The authors argue that Trump’s “cult of personality” has “badly damaged the Republican Party and the health of American democracy” and details the former president’s contesting the outcome of the 2020 election. Naturally, they also made the obligatory J6 reference, claiming that the former president “sought to retain power by fomenting a violent insurrection against the government of the United States.”

The authors also took issue with Trump’s rhetoric against high-profile government officials such as members of Congress, Federal Reserve governors, public health authorities and federal judges.”

In concluding the piece, the editorial board noted that Republican voters “now have other options” and said that “the sooner he is rejected, the sooner the Republican Party can return to the difficult but necessary task of working within the system to achieve its goals.”

Well, if the New York Times editorial board says you have to vote for someone else other than Trump, then you better make sure you pull the lever for DeSantis, Haley, or Ramaswamy. You wouldn’t want to make the powers that be at the Grey Lady mad, would you?

Seriously though, this pompous pile of pretentious bovine excrement is precisely why so many Americans despise the elitists in the legacy media, who sit in their ivory towers and dare to lecture us about how we vote. Whether you’re a Trump fan or not, this editorial is indicative of a reality that is all too apparent: These people believe they are your betters, which is why they think they can scold you into voting the way they want you to.

It is also ironic that they parroted the typical Democrat line about “democracy” when they are currently engaged in a nationwide effort to use the 14^th Amendment to prevent people from voting for Trump by removing him from the ballot. These elitists don’t care what any of you think. They are exactly who they accuse Trump of being, and they desperately hope the American public does not see it. But what else would we expect from a news outlet that functions as a propaganda apparatus for the left?