One of the more significant frustrations of the Trump era is the lack of precise terminology for the debates required of it. One such term is “Never Trump.” It is vague enough to include a broad spectrum of people who do not share views, tactics, or rhetoric, and it is laden with enough emotional and political baggage that it often provides more passion than precision.
In a widely discussed column titled “The Never Trump Delusion,” our colleague Rich Lowry says how much he admires some conservative critics of Trump, recounts many of the problems with how the president has conducted himself in office — running the White House like a reality show, firing Cabinet secretaries via Twitter, l'affaire Stormy, etc. — and then adds:
"Yet it doesn't follow that we should buy into the fantasy either that Trump is going to disappear into thin air, or that Trumpism can be blithely dismissed so the party can return to what some Never Trumpers believe constituted the status quo ante."
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