It is impossible to know anything about foreign policy or care anything about America’s interests in the world and support a man like Trump. To suggest that just because many in the establishment are corrupt or dysfunctional, therefore, someone from…
From our vantage point, a post-Trump conservative party will need to repudiate the institutional conduct of the RNC, Trump and his backers. In simplest terms it will need to restore virtue and character as the fundamental prerequisites of public leadership. It…
Negative partisanship has softened the Wall Street Journal too. The day after Trump released a list of selections for the Supreme Court, the Journal’s editors reassured readers: “Nothing is certain with Mr. Trump, but that’s far preferable to the certainty…
Within 24 hours of his Trump endorsement, Ryan was reminded of why he had taken so long to get behind his party’s presumptive nominee. Following Trump’s insistence that the judge in a lawsuit involving Trump University was biased against him…
Donald Trump presents himself as the man uniquely qualified to “remasculate” U.S. foreign policy, to sweep aside those who believe leadership depends as much on patience, discipline, generosity and imagination as on military muscle and an iron will. He wants…
Clinton recalled that Trump has been saying that “the world is laughing at us” since at least 1987, when he bought a full-page ad in the Times to say so. “Reagan was President,” Clinton pointed out, and that was a moment when,…
Cruz still isn’t budging from his refusal to endorse Trump. During an interview with an Oklahoma radio station last week, Cruz said that he’s still “looking and listening” to the presumptive nominee, before adding that he’s “deeply concerned for our…
In the brief final paragraph of his lengthy essay, Kesler concedes that even more important than bashing political correctness is specifying and defending “what is actually politically and morally correct.” And that is something Trump has so far failed to…
There is a deep division within American society on U.S. engagement in the world. The split is perfectly illustrated by recent Pew Research Center figures of public support for the use of ground troops in Iraq and Syria to fight…
After getting out of the race, he stuck with the mealy-mouthed position that he had pledged to support the nominee, so he would. Then Thursday, he took a big swig of the Trump Kool Aid and told CNN’s Jake Tapper…
