I've been less critical of the #NeverTrumpers than Charlie Pierce, but it appears that he was right all along. Pierce writes today: More than a few people have been bothered by my consistent skepticism about the good faith of most Never Trump conservatives. If any of them had abjured 40 years of insane Republican economics, and 40 years of weaponized bigotry, and 40 years of vote-tampering under the color of law, and if any of them had evinced a desire to change American conservatism from a profitable poisonous grift to an actual governing philosophy that didn't require a Thorazine the size of a manhole cover, I'd have felt differently.... But, through it all, I had the sense that most of them were more concerned with damage to the brand than with the damage to the republic. Damage to the brand?