How will never trumpers act during a Biden Administration

[JHB]

17. The ones who made their living getting Republicans elected will...

...return to the status quo ante-Trumpum. They may have to keep a lower profile for a while, but they want to go back to when everything was just fine. For them, that's the Bush administration.

If you listen to them talking among themselves, e.g., The Bulwark podcast, there's not a whole lot of soul-searching about how they went wrong. When they talk about how "Congress stopped working", they never get too specific about why. Because if they did break down the breakdown, all arrows would point at the Republicans. At them. They will always paint themselves as the reasonable people appalled by "the extremes on both sides." Which, after the election, will include Joe.

And none of them are trying to lead an insurgency from within their own party. None of them banged a gong to drum up support for William Weld. They're relying on us to do all the heavy lifting so they don't have to burn any bridges, at least not the ones they can shop their skills to. Where those bridges need a little repair work, they will lean hard and heavy on attacking Democrats and playing the "ZOMG! Socialism!" card to restore their cred.

There may be a tiny percentage, mostly on the periphery, who don't feel they can go return in good conscious. However, most of them will go back as soon as they think they've waited long enough for the smell of spray-on tan and hamberder farts to dissipate.