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If you're going to have a big tent, you have to be careful of who you're throwing out. The cancer to any such alliance is unnecessarily alienating those with whom you disagree. The Democrats are so good at this, they're in the process of blowing up their party. I mind a certain "Egregious Frum" who read conservatives - mostly Libertarians - out of the club for disagreeing on the Iraq war. The move wasn't contested, and those same outliers became the best assets of the opposition. Today, even though some have passed, those discards' opinions on the war and its conduct seem to be at or near the fore of rational conservative thought. The hawks and globalists may finally be on their way out.

Cancel culture must become exclusively a liberal thing for your conservative fusion to take place.

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