At Tom Klingenstein's place:
Kamala Harris and the Democrat establishment may have blown over a billion dollars to lose the 2024 election, but it’s their Never Trump allies most likely facing oblivion after President Donald Trump’s historic victory.
If so, good riddance.
My sentiments exactly. Circa 2016, the NT-ers were warning that Trump would destroy the Republican Party. He did destroy a party, the other one. More:
Never Trumpers were riding high. In October, pundits speculated that Liz Cheney could end up with a senior position in the future Harris administration. At an October 21 town hall in Pennsylvania — moderated by Sarah Longwell — Cheney urged Republicans to dump Trump over the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. “I have been troubled by the extent to which you have women who — as the vice-president said, in some cases have died — who can’t get medical treatment that they need because providers are worried about criminal liability.”
It’s worth pointing out Cheney’s cynical about-face: She launched her congressional career in 2016 on a strong anti-abortion platform with the endorsement of the Susan B. Anthony List, which gives her an “A” ranking on its pro-life scorecard. Now she says state abortion bans “cannot stand,” but only after left-wing donors like Jeffrey Katzenberg spent millions of dollars trying to rescue her failing reelection campaign in 2022.
Bill Kristol himself was once a member of the board of the Susan B. Anthony List, one of the most influential pro-life organizations in the country. Under his leadership, The Weekly Standard was among the most reliably pro-life publications in the country. But his final advice in the 2024 election, published in The Bulwark on November 3, was this: “Reproductive freedom is a crucial issue, and a winning one, and the Harris campaign would be foolish not to make it a closing one in these last couple of days.”