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    The Irrationally Divided Critics of Donald Trump

    Cooperation is needed to check an unfit leader. So why are so many critics of the president-elect needlessly turning on one another?
    by Conor Friedersdorf Jan 11, 2017 5 minutes
    Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

    A large cohort of Americans have reservations about the presidency of Donald Trump, who lost the popular vote by 2.9 million, strikes many who did vote for him as a highly flawed “lesser of two evils,” and has a dismal 37 percent approval rating. These ideologically diverse skeptics must cooperate if they hope to minimize the damage they believe the Trump Administration will do to America if left unopposed. But so far, they are easily divided. In fact, they cannot even refrain from attacking or alienating one another on matters where they are mostly in agreement.

    This self-defeating approach was earlier this week when Never Trump conservatives who fully believe that Donald Trump is a bully watched Meryl Streep levelthat criticism. Rather than

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