This twitter thread is a brutal takedown on the what passes for the conservative movement these days

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12. Those who weren't really familiar with him

...mostly held their noses and hoped that this "successful businessman" would have enough sense to do what was necessary to hold the line. A few knew from the beginning, mostly New Yorkers and those whose business interests had intersected Trump's, but nobody listened to them. Over the years as people have realized what he really is some have tried to keep him inside the coloring book lines, some have cravenly tried to use him for their own ends, and some have tried to do something about him -- but there have never been enough of the latter all at the same time to keep from just getting themselves purged. I suspect that if all the GOP people who have come to realize what he is today had known in 2016 he would not have been the GOP candidate.