The good news about the Right's civil war

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A civil war for the soul of the post-Trump conservative movement has broken out into the open in recent weeks. The Republican coalition, long united by the sheer force of a single figure with a malleable worldview and a strictly transactional nature, is now scrambling for an ideological identity. And the outcome is anything but certain.