They could call it quits and leave politics, as Paul Ryan, Bob Corker, Jeff Flake, and others have done.
They could band together and forge an intraparty faction, pledging to withhold their support unless certain conditions are met, such as an acknowledgment that the 2020 election wasn’t stolen and a commitment that voting restrictions based on Trump’s big election lie not be enacted.
They could form a third party with the aim of displacing Trump-endorsed candidates.
Or, they could simply do what millions of Americans did in the 2020 election and choose to align with moderate Democrats so long as the leadership of the GOP remains under Trump’s thumb.
None of these options is guaranteed of success. Any of them is better than surrender.
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