The conventional wisdom has long been that the New Hampshire GOP needs a State Chairman who can unify the Party’s factions. You know, the venerable “we need to focus on what unites us, not divides us” yada yada yada.
The problem is that the divide between the NeverTrumpers and the rest of us dwarfs whatever the NeverTrumpers and the rest of us have in common. As the name indicates, the NeverTrumpers prefer any Democrat for President over Trump.
If the NeverTrumpers had gotten their way in 2016, Hillary would be President and the United States Supreme Court would be 5-4 or 6-3 liberal-activist and, to name a few examples, the Court would have declared that the Second Amendment is not an individual right (overturning Heller) and that the First Amendment does not protect political expenditures by non-candidates (overturning Citizens United). That is anathema to the rest of us.
If the NeverTrumpers get their way in 2020, Trump will be a one-term President, replaced by some hard-Left Democrat. That too is anathema to the rest of us.
While the NeverTrumpers are small in numbers, they wield disproportionate power and receive disproportionate visibility:
So long as the GOP in New Hampshire attempts to foster a “big tent” that includes these and other NeverTrumpers, the Party will be —at best— an incoherent mess. The words and acts of these elitists will dissuade new members from getting involved —why get involved with a Party whose “leaders” regularly criticize and mock a President whose policies you support— and will cause existing members to leave.
Throw the bums out. We would be much better off without them.
