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It has been — as I knew it would be — a very bad day for the Republican Party and for the Republic.
“America’s Worst Congressman Endorses Donald Trump”
“Donald Trump should enjoy is Super Tuesday win because he’s going to be crushed”
“The Coming Anti-Trump Onslaught”
“Donald Trump is Hillary Clinton’s Best Hope”
Caesarotrumpism remains on the ascendent, and the forces of limited-government constitutionalism are very much on the defensive, bruised and battered.
And yet it’s not quite time to give up hope yet.
The anti-Trump forces are energized now, and the reality of Trump and Trumpism are beginning to be apparent to the majority of Republicans who still oppose this attempt to seize the party of Lincoln and Reagan. The estimable classicist and historian Victor Davis Hanson lays out a strategy for thwarting it:
“Donald Trump: How to Fight Him”
And here’s a prediction — amazing, if it turns out to be true — of a brokered Republican convention (than which no more dramatic bit of political theater can possibly be imagined):
“On to Cleveland: The Republican Nomination Will Be Decided at the Convention”
In the meantime, there’s this:
Remember all those supposed prophecies about the Mormons saving the Constitution when it hangs by a thread? I don’t know whether they’re authentic or not. But I find myself thinking about them these days.
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