Quote Originally Posted by LDAHL View Post
But in the long run, what should old-timey movement conservatives do? Henry Olsen has a piece on that in NR. He thinks conservatives should accept Trumpist populism as a fait accompli and become an influential minority within the GOP, rather than maintain their ideological purity in powerless isolation.

Maybe he’s right. If politics is about influencing events, dirty compromise may be preferable to impotent virtue signaling.
All the politician class republicans have admitted defeat by quitting, or were defeated by election, against the maga traitors. You might as well too I guess. Nothing to cap off a life of principled conservatism like giving up and going with the absolute opposite when that's the direction your political party chooses.

If the principled conservatives abandoned the republicans for a couple of elections and let them lose bigly things would change. Especially since trump will likely be dead or in prison by 2028 if he doesn't retake the white house and almost certainly and obviously quite mentally incompetent.