What allows a con-man to do his work is that the thing he's offering is so desirable to the mark. The never Trump conservatives wanted so badly to hand the keys of the kingdom to a reasonable, if liberal, candidate, that they ignored and mocked warnings from the conservative press that Biden was a milquetoast Trojan Horse for a radical leftist agenda. Trump-hating conservatives wanted Trump gone, and they barely cared how they achieved that goal. They listened to AOC when she said Biden wasn't progressive enough, and they were glad to eat that up. They thought that if AOC said Biden would be an ineffectual president for progressive policies, he would work out just fine. But they were played. They say be careful what you wish for, but also be careful who you shill for. If AOC, peddler of activist progressive policies, is on board with what Biden is doing, those conservatives who advocated for his presidency should know that they allowed their personal distaste for Trump to blind them to the truly divisive and damaging reality of an intensely progressive Biden presidency.