We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
David FrumPartly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.
David FrumLife, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.
David FrumRepublicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.
David FrumDonald Trump didn't have a polling operation until very late in his campaign. How did he know what to do? That the Ted Cruz people leaked their polls to Trump because they were looking forward to eliminating all the other rivals, clearing the way for a Cruz-Trump fight that they were certain Cruz would win. In the end, Cruz was the last man standing, it's true. If he had known at the beginning what he knew at the end, he might have thought twice. The Congressional Republican Party thought they could make Trump their tool to impose their very unpopular agenda. Instead, they became his tool.
David Frum