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I will cheerfully allow people who voted for Trump and have been burned by him and now are anti-Trump to fight him all they want. I might even support them in doing so. But they haven't changed a bit. They've just found out after fucking around, and their new antipathy to him is just as selfish as their old support. I will not trust them, I will not welcome them, and I know that the second they get the chance they'll stick a knife in my back. They're still my enemy, but they're also my enemy's enemy and thus I will do what I can to make it easier for them to be a problem for my enemy. That's the cold calculus of it.
That's normal, everyday people. The people who sat in the halls of power? They're by and large grifters. They'll change their coat on a dime, and right now they see more influence and money to be made as members of "the resistance" or whatever. The Lincoln Project grifters are prime examples of this, but there are and will be plenty of others. Tell them to fuck off until they pay for what they've done, until they do more than say that they're against Trump now. Certainly don't give them any money or influence. Don't give them oxygen as far as I'm concerned. Ignore them. They'll go away.
I give ammunition to my enemy's enemy with enough safeguards that it can't be turned on me. That's all. Let them fight. They're no friends of mine.
@intransitivelie Let them form another party. It’s a divide and conquer scenario.
@intransitivelie
I'm a lot more willing to accept former supporters who accept they start on the bottom. I don't care how important you were in Trump world; that doesn't carry over into the anti-Trump world. If you want to be accepted into the team, you first have to show you're willing to be a team player.
@VATVSLPR
Reparations. That's key for me. It's not enough to accept that you were wrong, it's about repairing the damage you did while you were wrong. And even then, I'm probably not going to trust that person.
@intransitivelie @VATVSLPR Right. Let them do some projects, independently, to thwart things. Oops, courage isn't their strong point, is it? Tho' possibly some collective disruptive chemistry... but would they, say, do things to slow ICE down?