“In the professional world and amongst conservative thinkers, no, there is no softening,” said Rob Stutzman, a Republican operative in California. “I think we believe as much as ever before he’s dangerous for the country. He is loathed.”
They have explained — in interviews and published writings — that their opposition to Trump was never about comfort with Clinton, or Trump’s narrow path to victory in the general election.
Rather, it’s about Trump himself — the positions he’s taken on issues and the way he’s conducted himself on the trail.
Even if you account for Trump’s slightly more disciplined campaign style recently, his renewed embrace of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin is just one of many examples that prove nothing that motivated their unequivocal opposition to him has changed.
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