William Saletan: “The Republican Party’s insanity leaves a big hole in this country. When progressives jerk their knees on one issue or another—deriding religious parents, overdoing Covid restrictions, calling every border-control policy racist—I’d like to hear alternative ideas from a sane conservative party.
”“Instead, what we have is an extremist, authoritarian party in which the one presidential candidate who tells the truth and adheres to principle has no chance of being nominated.”