Carlos Lozada: Anti-Trump Conservatives Want to Reverse the GOP’s Destruction. But They Helped Light the Fuse: "What kind of conservatism can survive, let alone thrive, in American politics today? The question hangs over the Never Trump volumes.... Flake... keeps the faith. 'With hard work... and maybe a little luck, we will right this ship'...
...Boot, by contrast, no longer claims the conservative label. And while he admires some of the Never Trumpers who stay and fight to retake the Republican Party, he deems the battle lost. The GOP has become “the stupid party,” one that “does not deserve to survive.” Wilson... [says] here was always “a whiff of bulls—” about Republican calls for fiscal conservatism, he acknowledges, much as how “we talk a good game about putting Main Street before Wall Street, but talk is all it’s been.” Nonetheless, he contends that Trumpism will someday be deemed a temporary aberration.... Sykes calls for “restoring the conservative mind,” yet he admits there may be little audience for it...
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