Never Trump

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/18/2020
  

  Trump is Testing Democracy. Nine out of 10 Senior Elected Republicans are Failing

  by Max Boot

  Civil servants have largely put their loyalty to the process of democracy above party. The same cannot be said for Republican elected officials. The Post's columnist argues that even if democracy survives, the party's reputation shouldn't. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/4/2020
  

  A Large Portion of the Electorate Chose the Sociopath

  by Tom Nichols

  By picking Trump again, those voters are showing that they are just like him: angry, spoiled, racially resentful, aggrieved, and willing to die rather than ever admit that they were wrong.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  10/30/2020
  

  Why this Conservative Voted for Biden and You Should Too: Trump is a Morally Defective Man

  by Tom Nichols

  What we can do is stem the pandemic and recover from the recession. We can shore up our tattered alliances. But none of this will happen — and nothing else will matter — if we lose the moral core of our identity as a democracy.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  9/21/2020
  

  Conservatives Are Already Whitewashing the Trump Years

  Danielle Pletka’s historical revision of Jesse Helms’s career shows how Trumpists will rationalize their role in this disastrous presidency.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/10/2020
  

  This Republican Party Is Not Worth Saving

  by Tom Nichols

  "The hardening of the GOP into a toxic conglomeration of hucksters, quislings, racists, theocrats, and cultists is already happening. The party gladly accepted support from white supremacists and the Russian secret services, and now welcomes QAnon kooks into its caucus. Conservatives must learn that the only way out of “the wilderness” is first to vanquish those who led them there."

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  8/4/2020
  

  The Never Trumpers Have Already Won

  by Samuel Moyn

  Never Trump's historic role turns out to be not among Republicans so far, but within a Democratic Party whose members have chosen to convert enemies into friends, setting up a guardrail against the capture of their party by the left.

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• 7/26/2020
  

  Who Opened the Door to Trumpism? David Frum's "Trumpocalypse" Reviewed

  by David O'Connor

  Through his long analysis of Trump’s follies, Frum never develops his contention that twenty-first-century conservatism helped open the door for Trump. Without a full accounting, his political mea culpa is hollow and fails to offer guidance on how to avoid mistakes in the future.