A lot of Republicans have figured out that it's better for them if Biden wins.
Yeah, the ones who don't want to watch the world burn.
Or who don't want to watch
their world burn.
Whether they honestly believe in the rhetoric of the pre-Trump GOP, or just want to keep some hold on power, Mr. Trump is the greatest threat the Republican Party has ever faced. Going forward from him, there seem to be only two major paths: a cult of personality with a strongly fascist lean and a light dusting of religious zealotry (that
will lead the nation to disaster) or decades in the wilderness as the old GOP supporters die off and a generation alienated from the GOP dominates the country.
I suspect the Never-Trumpers at this point are hoping to thread a needle. They need to rid the United States (and the GOP) of Mr. Trump's nuclear meltdown brand, and then paint him as an aberration that could happen to any party when the low-information proles get too much power and shove aside the elites who know better. (Not that they'd phrase it in precisely that fashion, but I'm guessing that would be the message behind the rhetoric.) But even if they fail utterly, and whatever their motives, they are doing something admirable. They are the Republican Party's
Operation Valkyrie - an enduring memorial that will let future Republicans look back and say "at least some of us were on the right side".
