“Republican voters face a choice,” intoned Mike Pence, who cannot speak without intoning. “In the days to come, will we be the party of conservatism, or will we follow the siren song of populism unmoored to conservative principles? The future of this movement and this party belongs to one or the other, not both. That’s because the fundamental divide between these two factions is unbridgeable.”

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