The question I both ask and answer for my lib friends is, “what is a neo-con?” Answer, “The Never Trumpers.” Then I say, these are the Republicans aligned with Hillary Clinton and the Establishment.
They lose it.
That’s a good point. For some of them, support of the Never Trumpers (and her direct pitch to them) delegitimizes her as a true Democrat. Her ads showing Romneys and Bushes and Sucan Collins type bashing Trump earns few Republican votes who mostly hate the party regulars and drives some Dems over to Johnson and Stein.