A month ago, I asked Twitter, “When did ‘never Trump,’ morph into ‘only Democrats’? What is conservative about working for Democratic majorities?”

There were many rebarbative replies, it being Twitter. But one superficially logical response was that the party deserves obliteration because almost no Republican has stood up to President Trump; they’ve all become his creatures, “playing team sports with politics,” siding with their guy rather than holding him accountable.