For example, in a recent column for The Washington Post, Perry Bacon, Jr. criticized George W. Bush, Liz Cheney, and Mitt Romney, despite their (in the cases of Cheney and Romney) heroic stands. “A much more useful approach,” Bacon writes, “would be for these Republicans to formally break with the GOP and announce that they will back Democratic candidates.” Useful for who? This advice ignores the very serious and substantive differences in worldview between the two parties. Conservatives might be willing to withhold support from Trump, but that doesn’t mean we should go the other direction and support an increasingly radicalized Democratic Party that is (among other radical things) pushing abortion on demand. Their retort is that the life of the republic is at stake. This would seemingly create strange bedfellows and cover a multitude of sins. Interestingly, though, this existential threat only seems to work one way. “[I]f aligning with Cheney is what it takes to save our democracy then so be it,” my colleague Wajahat Ali wrote, “so long as that ‘grand coalition’ doesn’t compromise on a progressive platform that continues to fight and advocate for policies that will bring about real equity and progress.”