I warned in that piece that back in 1848, when a wealthy, loutish, celebrity outsider only intermittently loyal to his party’s principles seized the nomination, his party, the Whigs, never ...

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The parallels between our situation and that of seventeenth-century England abound—and so do the contrasts and ironies.

Moderates have been largely squeezed out of relevance by a combination of polarization, plus the extreme gerrymandering in many states.

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This wouldn’t be easy, obviously. My insider friends say it’s impossible, but they are terminally conventional in their thinking, as the Whigs were. I respond that the broad center is disaffected from ...