 The neocons that make up the Never Trump faction were also sending up flares. Writing in the Bulwark, for example, William Crystal, Bill Crystal, and Andrew Egger declared, We will be told there's no way Joe Biden will step aside. That will be the excuse of senior statesmen and prominent Democrats for not making a serious effort to persuade him to do so. But their realism is merely a cloak for fatalism and defeatism.