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It wasn’t supposed to go like this. The polls showed Hillary Clinton with a small but stable lead. But as Donald Trump began to run away with the election on Tuesday night, the small band of #NeverTrump Republicans began lamenting the role their party played in electing him—and the future it helped create.

Here are their tweets:

With a not insignificant chance Trump is President right now, everyone in my party who enabled this should think about what they’ve done — Tim Miller (@Timodc) November 9, 2016

RIP Classic Liberalism. 1750-2016 — Tim Miller (@Timodc) November 9, 2016

All the Republicans who endorsed Trump on the assumption that he’d lose are not looking like history’s finest public servants now. — Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) November 9, 2016

Maybe Mitt Romney and George W. Bush should have endorsed Evan McMullin or Gary Johnson. — Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) November 9, 2016

It may not be the end of the end of history. But perhaps it is the beginning of the end. — Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) November 9, 2016

On the bright side, 227 years is a really good run for a republic. — David Frum (@davidfrum) November 9, 2016

Feeling bad about much much tonight, but feeling good about this. https://t.co/qhIJBzAh0S I’d be ashamed now if I had flinched — David Frum (@davidfrum) November 9, 2016