The Republican Train Wreck

Charles Krauthammer's latest column probably speaks for many Washington conservatives. Looking forward to the convention, he sees either an easy Trump victory or a bitter contest leading to the nomination of Cruz, after which Trump would storm out and take many of his followers with him, to be followed in either case by electoral catastrophe:

In a country where only 25 percent feel we’re on the right track and where the leading Democrat cannot shake the challenge of a once-obscure dairy-state socialist, you’d think the Republicans cannot lose.

You’d be underestimating how hard they are trying.