The difference between Bill Clinton and Donald Trump: (Or, compartmentalization is a good thing)
Conservative thinker Hadley Arkes doesn’t understand why #NeverTrump Republicans can’t just get on the bandwagon already. Don’t they know what’s at stake? I can hardly blame the Bushes for recoiling from the indignities and insults, the lies and calumnies, thrown off with such abandon by Donald Trump. But accomplished public men are even more obliged than the rest of us to respect the difference, searing at times, between personal wounds and public duties. To take those duties seriously is to raise the question of why the Bushes and people like them do not care as much for the things that other Republicans, ordinary folk, see at stake in 2016: the prospect that medical care will be politically managed at the national level, with an independent commission rationing care, bringing everyone under their control; the specter of federal courts filled at all levels with the professoriate of the Left, ready to install as law those fevered theories that have now become the fas