Regardless, this is the nuclear option. It would be ugly. Trump’s fans would see this as a corrupt bargain. Allegations of a “stolen election” would surely be made. There are no good strategies at this point, just less bad ones. Many mainstream conservatives and establishment Republicans are betting that Hillary Clinton’s presidency might actually be better than Donald Trump’s. That’s not to say they would vote for her, but they might instead stay at home (or vote third party). The rationale is as follows: Hillary Clinton would be a bad president, but we have survived bad liberal presidents in the past. Donald Trump, instead, poses an existential threat: He would redefine what it means to be a Republican and a conservative—and this redefinition (as a European-style, nationalistic, white identity politics party) would be unacceptable to many of us.