He's not using that label himself, is he?

Could it be that this isn't really a prescription for the party as a whole but Kabuki for candidates that want to run as a "D" but also distance themselves from the party?

Sure, but what does he say about releasing the Epstein Files?

nm, I see that their names are just being used to give the impression that the manifesto reflects a broad consensus.

Have the strategists of Obama '08 decided that Mark Penn had the better argument after all?

It may be a window into the etiquette of his handlers and courtiers that he believes these are IQ tests which he takes under his own initiative, perhaps after being prompted with a list of minorities and women that he can ostensibly prove himself against.

This, in a better world, would have been his zenith of notability.

Looks like Jake Tapper's beat.

There may be surprises all around when people notice where Spencer Klavan actually draws the lines. Don't know how you read Aristophanes' speech at the Symposium and come away with love is love but gender is essential, but then again I'm not paid to fight Rufo's culture wars.

"Licensed to sell"

"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it."

If I can't wear an inflatable costume and dance, Mr. Steele, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

Thanks to a dictator fighting a war of choice to conquer and annex a neighboring country for their critique of the peace prize.

The party of Trump represents a break with traditional restraint, but the impulses given free rein under 45/47 are not alien to the party of the Bushes, Reagan, and Nixon. A few Republicans have admirably drawn a line, but the vast majority do not. It's fair to ask why they don't.

There are discontinuities, it is true, but there is also a Supreme Court majority enabling the descent into fascism, half of which was appointed by the comparatively norm-bound 41st and 43rd presidents. If even one of those justices was pushing back, you'd have a stronger argument.

Let's do the Time Warp again!