> the GOP had, in their eyes, defenestrated what was left of its legitimacy. This would have been a stronger point if the principled conservatives (those peopl

> the GOP had, in their eyes, defenestrated what was left of its legitimacy. This would have been a stronger point if the principled conservatives (those people with whom, in the 1988 US, I never would have thought I'd ever agree) within the GOP had not been decrying exactly the same defenestration. (my fantasy at this point is that those people, the Lincoln Project, and the right wing of the democratic party could all coördinate and form a viable Centre Party. There is some slight precedent by Earl Warren in California: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Warren#Election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Warren#Election but otherwise I would never hold my breath. The Old Country has long-standing structural tech^Wpolitical debt baked-in, and so I am content to watch it with concern from this side of the Atlantic.) Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33957537 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33957537 links the story of Beth Moore, an economic and social conservative, and how she was cancelled after she also saw the defenestration.