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<p>Author <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/159154-i-think-we-are-well-advised-to-keep-on-nodding-terms">Joan Didion famously wrote that</a> “...we are well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.”</p>
<p>Modern conservatives would do well to heed this warning, after spending the last seven or eight years forgetting “<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-we-keep-getting-wrong-about-the-right">the people we used to be</a>” and <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-turned-the-gop-into-matt-gaetzs-freak-flag-party">reverse-engineering our values</a> to fit within the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-gop-is-a-party-of-snowflakes-and-beta-males">narrow confines of the Trump era</a>.</p>
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Author Joan Didion famously wrote that “…we are well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.”
