#literally a quarter of Harris's campaign appearances were alongside one nevertrump conservative or another

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Absolutely not.

We can — indeed must — turn people away, because these particular people, i.e. repeat Trump voters, are by definition not going to join any team that's working to get rid of Trump. Not ever. They will love him and adore his vileness until the day they die. I get that we want there to be Trump voters who regret their vote, but... there aren't. Not after three election cycles. Any Trump voter who tells you they regret their vote and only want to get rid of him now, in 2025, should be regarded as...well, a Trump voter. If they want to do their bit to oust Trump or limit the damage he's done, they're free to do so. But not on my team. Not anywhere near me, or anyone else they could hurt.

For the past quarter-century we have been gagging on the lie that conservatives have been telling us about themselves: that they want fiscal responsibility, they want to stop federal waste, that they want common-sense laws and lowered taxes and state's rights. But what we have seen over and over and over and over and over and over and over again is that they're liars: they don't mind high taxes if it hurts the poor, that they only want to cut programs that help the vulnerable, that they will override any state that dares to treat the powerless with kindness instead of disgust. We've been fed the lies so much that we half-believe them, and I'm saying: enough. Stop believing what conservatives say when they've had decades to show us who they are. Trump and Vance are who they are; Elon Musk and Nick Fuentes and Mitch McConnell are who they are. They want to hurt you and they will do so at their earliest possible convenience: namely, the millisecond that you let them in — whether that's your home, your team, your circle or your community.

I'm sorry to be that blunt but that's the facts. One out of every three Americans is just no longer someone you can believe, at all, if they say they voted for Trump but now want to stop him. And with all due respect, we have more than enough Americans who didn't vote for him (or at least didn't vote for him in 2024) that we can be a little more selective about who we welcome to the "team."

We can afford to turn Trump voters away; in fact, we can't afford not to, because if we let them in, they will quite literally blow up the building.