I’m still extremely ticked off that the NR gang did their best to make sure the Dems picked Scalia and Kennedy’s replacements.
Well, to be honest, NR’s no different than the majority of pundits who first said Trump would quickly drop out after he waived the flag a bit, then would drop out because he failed to win Iowa, then would drop out...
And they were absolutely sure that the polished (and dirty and underhanded cheating) machine of Clinton’s would swiftly roll up any Trump campaign, especially since he’d face so much resistance within his own party.
If you follow that original supposition, it makes more than a bit of sense that NR wanted to push Trump away and when that failed, try to push Clinton towards a ‘compromise’ win, especially with a GOP controlled legislature.
NR was dead wrong. But NR epitomizes the GOP in the blue states who surrender at the first chance and push forward candidates who aren’t quite as liberal as their Democrat opponents. The various state GOP organizations are still doing that and the Trump coattails might get a few of those liberals in GOP pajamas over the finish line.
At the end of the day, while this is a great piece, it lacks the definitive statement: We’ve tried it the liberal way, it sucks, let’s try it some other way rather than repeating the same path that gives us awful results.