He hit it exactly--what is it they say in the Olympics? "He stuck it"? I am old enough to remember Eisenhower Republicans, as well as Goldwater Republicans and Nixon Republicans. They were people who believed in the underlying principles this country was founded on; they simply had a different idea of how to achieve them.

Ronald Reagan founded the current Republican Party when he made "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" his campaign slogan. Not "Is the country better off," "Is the average citizen better off," or even "Are your friends and neighbors better off," but "Are YOU better off?" I wrote about that at the time, when no one seemed to be paying any attention to it, and I've watched it happen over the intervening years, till we got to . . . this.