Jon Chait notes that Republicans and "conservatives" have now mostly capitulated to Trumpism. This should not be a surprise to anyone who has looked - unblinking - at the Republican Party, especially since 1994 and the rise of the Gingrich Right. Conservatism has returned to what Lionel Trilling called it "irritable mental gestures." It is not "conservative" in any meaningful way. It is reactionary, but above all tribal, insular and resistant to evidence and logic.
I'm not sure Trump can be the reckoning that it deserves. The US needs a Republican Party that isn't...well, what today's Republican Party is.
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