Can we stop calling Trump Cultists "Conservatives"?

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41. In 2015 the Republican party was

going to have a brokered convention to choose another candidate. But because Trump was so wildly popular with the authoritarian 80% of their base that they could not win without him, they put party before country and chose Trump. Many of them realized exactly what they were doing. Some of the party leaders, Bushes, Cheneys, Romney refused to support Trump even though he was their party's nominee. This was unprecedented. They knew that a democracy has to have at least two viable parties committed to democracy, and that by putting an authoritarian in charge of their party there would only be one viable party committed to democracy. They knew that until another viable party committed to democracy is formed democracy in the US will be one election away from extinction.