In the wreckage of 20 years of American efforts in Afghanistan comes a single silver lining of schadenfreude — the vindication of #NeverBidenism.

A certain class of Never Trumper used Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential primary to transform into “Never Republicans.” These former “conservatives,” in the fervor of their reactionary partisanship, simply became Democrats, forsaking every belief they ever held previously. Lifelong, card-carrying liberals may have disagreed with us conservatives who chose not to vote for either Trump or Biden. But the newly radicalized neocons who swore fealty to Biden genuinely hated us.