Donald Trump Ditch Trump or lose By Timothy P. Carney, Senior Columnist November 18, 2022 01:15 AM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print Donald Trump Ditch Trump or lose By Timothy P. Carney, Senior Columnist November 18, 2022 01:15 AM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print Dean MacAdam Donald Trump has just leaped into the 2024 presidential race with his announcement that he will again seek the Republican nomination. This is a lamentable development, for until the former president is out of the picture, the Republican Party and American conservatism cannot thrive. Trump did deliver many conservative wins for America — nominating originalist judges who then overturned Roe v. Wade , cutting taxes, and staying out of disastrous regime-change wars, to name just three. But along the way, he corrupted his party and conservatism by dragging it into a cult of personality and conspiracy theories. Conservatism and the Republican Party need to escape these pits of Trumpism, and so they need to get rid of Trump. TRUMP IS BACK, AT REPUBLICANS' PERIL This has nothing to do with policy preferences. Tariffs, immigration policy, and entitlement spending are all fair subjects of intramural debate on the Right. And moving beyond Trump will enable those debates to get the attention they deserve because they have always been secondary to Trump and their discussion routinely back-burnered or disrupted by some controversy or another. Indeed, on some policy matters, the former...