Some of you will recall Evan McMullin as one of the three major alternative candidates in the 2016 presidential election, after the Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein. As a mainstream conservative Republican, and as a Mormon, he was an attractive candidate for some. Many Mormons, especially in Utah, and a fair number of other mainstream conservatives were drawn to him as an alternative to this year’s Republican candidate. He got 22% of the vote in Utah and pulled in more than 600,000 votes nationwide. That’s after launching his campaign in August, barely ahead of filing deadlines in only a dozen states; not too bad.

Anyway: Prompted this afternoon by a tweeted question from filmmaker Brian Koppelman, McMullin replied with a short tweetstorm listing 10 steps he recommends for resisting the authoritarianism promised by the presumed president-elect.

Now, I’m not endorsing these steps as sufficient. And I’m certainly not endorsing McMullin politically; he’s a fair-minded guy, but still conservative. But they’re not a bad start.

Most of all, though, I think it is interesting that a standard-issue, non-crazy Republican — the sort of Republican who could easily have won a presidential nomination just a couple of years ago — now finds it necessary to issue such a warning. His consciousness of the looming danger is heartening.

Which is to say: in the coming resistance, we will have allies on more sides that we might have thought. It’s not a bad idea to make common cause with them, to the degree it helps our common cause.

The original tweetstorm (minus #4, which didn’t get linked) begins here:

x .@briankoppelman: If Trump governs as an authoritarian like he has promised, it will be critical that Americans do the following 10 things: https://t.co/ib56XSPTSe — Evan McMullin (@Evan_McMullin) December 4, 2016

And here it is, detwitterfied: