“THIS CATASTROPHE IS COMING, IN ONE FORM OR THE OTHER,” Ace of Spades posits. “Either Trump is the nominee and we lose, or he’s not the nominee and we also lose:”

Or, God forbid, he wins the election, and then we might really lose.

Knowing that you’re going to lose, and that therefore there are no nagging pragmatic reasons to compromise yourself, is very freeing.

I think the important thing is to begin planning ahead, and planning on what we’d like the conservative movement to look like during the Hillary Rodham presidency.

Do we want to be the party of openness to ideas, and a tolerant party, or do we want to be the mirror image of the Social Justice Warriors, with a litany of angry dogmas and lengthy Public Shaming Lists?

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