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What happened to the "NeverTrump" Republicans? (Original Post)
issuesDemocrats
Oct 2018
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Which ones? Specifically? Because as far as I can tell, they're all still Republicans. (n/t)
FreepFryer
Oct 2018
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FreepFryer
(7,086 posts)1. Which ones? Specifically? Because as far as I can tell, they're all still Republicans. (n/t)
Neema
(1,181 posts)2. Shockingly, it turned out they were all lying hypocrites who would sell their own mothers
to retain power.
issuesDemocrats
(91 posts)7. I appreciate that you said mothers - as in, WOMEN.
Seems pertinent!
Neema
(1,181 posts)11. Didn't even think about it but yeah,
does make sense.
Freddie
(10,075 posts)3. There aren't any
The last one (John McCain) is dead.
Meadowoak
(6,606 posts)4. They got on the trump train, which is headed for a cliff.
issuesDemocrats
(91 posts)8. Seems like it, but we're being held hostage on the same train.
Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)5. Faced with a hard choice
they traded their principles for expediency , displaying the core values of every GOP stalwart I ever met.
issuesDemocrats
(91 posts)9. What principles?
FBaggins
(28,677 posts)6. His judicial picks are the one thing they like about him
They arent going to spike a conservative justice to get back at Trump
Big Blue Marble
(5,671 posts)10. There are plenty of them.
Read Jennifer Rubin in the Wash Post. She writes one to two brilliant columns a day.
And check out Max Boot's new Mother Jones article and podcast where he acknowledges
his support of the Republican Party was based on denial.
There are others as well. Many, in the past, I could not stand: Bill Crystal, Ric Wilson,
Steve Schmidt.
