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It wasn’t supposed to go like this. The polls showed Hillary Clinton with a small but stable lead. But as Donald Trump began to run away with the election on Tuesday night, the small band of #NeverTrump Republicans began lamenting the role their party played in electing him—and the future it helped create.
Here are their tweets:
With a not insignificant chance Trump is President right now, everyone in my party who enabled this should think about what they’ve done
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) November 9, 2016
RIP Classic Liberalism. 1750-2016
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) November 9, 2016
All the Republicans who endorsed Trump on the assumption that he’d lose are not looking like history’s finest public servants now.
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) November 9, 2016
Maybe Mitt Romney and George W. Bush should have endorsed Evan McMullin or Gary Johnson.
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) November 9, 2016
It may not be the end of the end of history. But perhaps it is the beginning of the end.
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) November 9, 2016
On the bright side, 227 years is a really good run for a republic.
— David Frum (@davidfrum) November 9, 2016
Feeling bad about much much tonight, but feeling good about this. https://t.co/qhIJBzAh0S I’d be ashamed now if I had flinched
— David Frum (@davidfrum) November 9, 2016
I’m sad for what we have lost. Liberal democratic capitalism is dead for the foreseeable future in the GOP. But electoral facts are facts.
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) November 9, 2016
