4. Based on my sense people's character & inclination, I'd say about 80% of #neverTrump people will end up voting for Trump.
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5. The deep divide will be between people committed to the Republican party & those committed to conservative ideas.
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6. It's the divide between
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7. Distinction between Kristol & Douthat is this: Kristol is an apparatchik, a party hack. If the party picks Trump, he'll fall in line.
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8. I could be wrong, but I think
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9. Despite Andrew Sullivan's hyperventilation, Trump is not an extinction event for American Republic or even the Republican.
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10. Trump is, however, an extinction event for the American conservative movement as it has existed since 1950s.
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Jeet Heer Retweeted Major Garrett
11. Trump will call himself a conservative but remake conservatism in his own image:https://twitter.com/MajorCBS/status/727291460337410049 …
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12. Trump's conservatism will be nationalist, unilateralist, protectionist, for tighter borders & relatively indifferent to social issues.
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@ScottMcConnell9 Right, I think that's Trump's strength -- that he speaks to real issues that are part of everyday life.
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