A conservative writer urged Republicans not to nominate Donald Trump for president again, arguing the GOP does not lack options and does not need to return to this well.

Donald Trump? In 2024? Why on earth would conservatives choose that guy? National Review senior writer Charles C.W. Cooke asked in an essay published on the magazines website Tuesday.

The idea of selecting extraordinary selfish Trump to run in 2024 should be absurd, risible, farcical, outr and the preserve of the demented fringe, Cooke wrote.

The GOP is not short of candidates who havent lost an election and then disgracefully lied about it for a year or inspired a riot in the service of that lie, Cooke added.

Trump is hated by an awful lot of Americans for good cause, and there is absolutely no reason for those Americans to be asked to sweat their vote again next time around, he said. The man lost. Hes a loser. Its time we picked a winner for a change.

Read Cookes column here.