Opinion: If NeverTrumpers don’t have an endgame, maybe it’s because to them politics isn’t a game
By Megan McArdle Megan McArdle Columnist Bio Follow Columnist March 1 at 4:33 PM Three years ago, I noticed a hashtag trending on Twitter: #NeverTrump. As conservatives began to realize that Trump really might be the Republican Party nominee, they were rushing to dissociate themselves from impending ideological disaster.
Intrigued, I asked #NeverTrump Republicans to write me about their dilemma. Within hours, I was inundated with cries of existential anguish from hundreds of party stalwarts who vowed that they would never, ever, pull the lever for That Man. Yet as the party heads into 2020 with Trump still very much at the helm, a number of people are beginning to ask an obvious question: “What’s the point?” Conservative resistance hasn’t ousted Trump; all it’s done is split the movement. So as political scientist and RealClearPolitics writer Sean Trende recently asked in a Twitter thread, what is the end game for the dedicated holdouts?
The problem with the second strategy, which we might call “the straddle,” is that while it’s quite easy to defend on principle, in practice there’s little benefit. Liberals will identify you with all of Trump’s worst excesses, while the Party of Trump will regard you as a fifth columnist. Goldberg said this shortly before announcing that he was leaving National Review to found a new conservative media company with Stephen F. Hayes. National Review is the premier conservative straddle publication, having charted a careful post-election course between conservatism’s two belligerent factions. Hayes is the former editor of the late Weekly Standard, recently shut down by an owner who had apparently tired of the magazine’s feisty opposition to Trump.
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