Donald J. Trump

"He’s a braggart and a liar. And a serial adulterer. He’s behaved shamefully during the primary campaign. He wouldn’t recognize the Constitution if he tripped over it in the street. He doesn’t know even the Cliff Notes version of any policy issue. The idea that the party of Lincoln and Reagan, Coolidge and Eisenhower, Justice Harlan and Senator Taft has nominated Trump is appalling.... And I'm going to vote for him anyway."

-- Mark Krikorian, "The National Review"

At the beginning of the year nobody was betting that Donald Trump, the real estate mogul and reality-TV star, would win the Republican nomination, but he effectively sewed up the nomination last night in Indiana. Senator Ted Cruz made the state his big showdown state against Trump in a bid to gain some serious momentum going into the convention, but Trump blew him away by twenty points, and Cruz has since bowed out of the contest to lick his wounds.

The Krikorian quotation exemplifies how the Republican establishment will come to embrace their flamboyant and notorious nominee. When it comes to picking the Supreme Court and other appointments to the government, they figure that Trump has to be better than any liberal Democrat, including Hillary, the presumptive Democratic nominee. We can expect quite a campaign in the autumn. It promises to be explosive - T.N.T.