Abraham Maslow (channeling his inner Mark Twain) once observed that it “is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
Likewise, to a pollster, every problem is matter of data; and to political operatives everything looks like the next election cycle.
On their own terms this makes perfect sense. But perhaps, the frame needs to be widened; and the full scope of the problem addressed. For the moment though, the conservative elite seems to be coalescing around a consensus that it is the embodiment of foolishness for conservatives to continue to resist Trumpism and its works.
So we got a long (and thoughtful) tweet thread from Real Clear Politics's Sean Trende asking, essentially, what Never Trumpers (specifically those of us at The Bulwark) could possibly be thinking by resisting the Trumpifaction of the GOP.
As Trende sees it, Trump skeptics in the GOP have only three options: leave, sit quietly, or fight back.
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