The GOP “has become the caricature the Left always said it was”: Jennifer Rubin has become a leading voice for a group of conservative intellectuals who don’t fit comfortably in either political party — and sees the party she left behind as “immoral” and “anti-American”. Charles Pierce: “I’d like to offer this sanity quiz to all #NeverTrump conservatives”. The GOP’s Never-Trumpers are really just Never-Democrats: “The idea of abandoning the Republican Party because it is authoritarian and toxically anti-intellectual was apparently as unfathomable to him as a fish in a polluted river deciding to live on land”. “Never Trump” conservatives won’t save us: Nathan J. Robinson reviews Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy by Jonah Goldberg.
