I’m not a historian, but I do know how to read history, and one of the things I have learned from that reading is that fascists around the world can’t do what they want without the help of conservative elites. If they think demagogues like Donald Trump are just clowns they can control, the clowns win in the end. If they don’t, however, they don’t. I don’t know if we have arrived at a moment in which conservative elites have stopped giving Trump the full benefit of the doubt, but we are nonetheless seeing a number lining up against him – and not just the usual folks, like former Wyoming Congres…