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<em>Never Trump</em> Means Never

Opposing Trumpism is about more than rejecting one man.
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Never Trump is—still—a movement that is about more than just one man. It stands in opposition to everything Donald Trump has done to American civic life, and rejects those who would wear his mantle.

But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.


Not Ever

In one of the most appalling appropriations of a political banner in years—or at least since Trump decided in 2012, after years of , finally to settle on calling himself a Republican—some of the conservatives hoping to salvage the GOP’s fortune after the 2022 midterms are trying to seize and to mean a rejection of “ Trump, and no other

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