David Frum: Trump was not "democratically elected" - he lost by 2.9 million....

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9. Frum's one of the thoughtful moderate conservatives

who reject what the Republican Party's become and whom we must ally with if we are to bring our nation through this. Nicolle Wallace, very popular around here, is another example of conservatives we agree with on most things.

Frum warned several years ago on TV that the battle for power was enormous. It's about the soul of our nation, and Trump's a symptom, a metastasis that threatens to kill by itself, but not the big cancer. Frum's very enlightening Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic was published in 2018, which means it's now very affordable secondhand. But many of his writings are free on line also.

“Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”

The white (Christian) male Republican leadership already had, years before Obama's election lit a fire under many millions of conservative voters forced to realize the comforting, secure Ozzie and Harriet America they loved to believe in had "disappeared." Many still don't realize it never existed, but their anxiety at learning that would not help anyone. We have to hold through this transition, and reestablish widespread security and hopes for future prosperity, until their descendants who don't know what all the fuss is about outvote them.