This column is a sequel to one I had a week ago, which was picked up and bandied about a bit, but as I said then the first installment was not a complete list of the things Republicans need to…

Donald Trump is usually a repository of common sense. But on matters related to “gay rights,” he is hopelessly unmoored from common sense. Trump’s support for that appalling movement, which is so destructive to the country, at a recent Log…

The accounts I have read about the race for Republican National Committee chair make it sound as if Ronna McDaniel is sure to win another term as leader of the GOP. These articles imply that her flunkies at the RNC…

It is one of the most bitter and tragic ironies of our contemporary politics that the leadership of one of America’s two major political parties, the Republican Party, utterly despises that party’s very own voting base. The GOP elite’s scorn…

We haven’t done a 5QT in this space in a while. It seems like I’m always saying that. Maybe it’s the fact that things are always so demonstrative or instructive as of late that they deserve full columns instead of…

Illustrating that they won’t take their own side in a dispute, Republicans typically choose as their party chieftains hacks who betray little evidence of having read the GOP platform and even less evidence of supporting it. Current Republican National Committee…

The ruling class portrays “bipartisanship” as the solution to our problems. In truth, it is a source of them. More often than not, bipartisanship simply means that Republicans and Democrats have joined together to pass legislation damaging to the country’s…

“Victory has a thousand fathers. Defeat is an orphan,” observed the late Democratic President John F. Kennedy. But that’s certainly not the view in the GOP, where those responsible for the party’s malaise, far from suffering the ostracism of the…

In 2013, David McCormick signed a legal brief in favor of gay marriage. In 2008, Dr. Oz said, “I’m not socially conservative. I don’t believe that we should be intruding into the private lives of homosexuals and we should not…