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In fact, Democrats should ponder whether to seek out the Never Trumpers as dance partners at all. That movements only clear success has been to draw outsize media attention. While Trumpists are snatching up key positions in the countrys electoral mechanics, with an eye toward tilting the next presidential contest, Never Trumpers are writing op-eds, retiring from the fight, and occasionally making a complete mess of trying to help Democrats win elections.

Perhaps the most worrisome part of this partnership is the extent to which the Democrats have allowed these disaffected Republicans to colonize the Democratic Partys aesthetic. Bidens own Democratic National Convention was an often perverse display of moderate Republican courtship, with spare-no-expense production values given to Ohio Republican John Kasich to stand at a literal crossroads to make a point about a figurative crossroads, while Maines Sara Gideon was reduced to introducing a musical guest despite being in a competitive Senate race against Susan Collinsa seat that Democrats would dearly love to have now.

Writing for The New Republic, Samuel Moyn pinpointed an even more troubling aspect of this partnership: the extent to which Never Trumpism was being driven primarily by the foreign policy lifers of the Bush-Cheney era, the stalwart crew who feared that Trump threatened the Cold War national security consensus that gave rise to so much neoconservative misadventure. Its worth noting that earlier this week, Commentarys John Podhoretz crowed that neoconservatism had been vindicated, in part because hip liberals are no longer its loudest critics (instead, he argues, traditional conservatives have taken their place as the leading anti-American voices of our time).

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