https://www.deseret.com/2021/4/7/22353618/evan-mcmullin-miles-taylor-new-third-party-gop-republican-founding-ideals-trump-vision

Mormon-Mafia Spook Evan McMullin is back

Apr 7, 2021

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On a cold Friday morning in February, 120 well-known conservatives gathered via Zoom. The meeting was unadvertised and invite-only, and under Chatham House Rule, attendees agreed to not publicly reveal the identity of others outside of that setting.

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Taylor, the well-known author of an anonymous 2018 New York Times op-ed titled “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” left DHS in 2019 and has been a candid Trump critic since. But for many, McMullin’s name is more recognizable. The CIA operations officer-turned-presidential candidate ran his campaign based on opposition — and a principled alternative — to Trump. That effort has continued.

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Others in the Republican Party, like Sens. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., have been vocal in criticizing Trump for his role in the violence at the Capitol. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, who supported Trump’s reelection, told me in February the insurrection was “a very, very bad thing that happened…"

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“I look at that Jan. 6 insurrection as an incident of similar proportions. It was a violent insurrection led by a sitting president, who sought to overturn a free and fair election…"

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Attendees, including staunch Trump detractors (like Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger and former Pennsylvania Rep. Charlie Dent) and disillusioned members of the Trump White House (like John Mitnick and Elizabeth Neumann), all had the opportunity to share their thoughts…

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Even in Utah, where McMullin found the most success in 2016, gaining traction for a new party would be a hard sell. While Trump received 45% of the state’s vote in 2016, he improved to 58% in 2020. In mid-January of this year, 36% of Utahns believed Trump legitimately won the election (as well as 44% of Utah Latter-day Saints). The well of anti-Trump center-right voters McMullin tapped into in 2016 seems to be drying up rapidly, if not already.

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>The perpetually panicked are all in a swivet…