If the acceptance of Donald Trump by the Republican Party is happening slowly, the acceptance by Trump of the Republican Party seems to be going less well.

Nothing suggest he wants much to do with it, as Dan Balz has written, nothing suggests he understands the duties associated with leading a party, and nothing suggests he feels a duty to bring the dissenters along. Instead, he went to New Mexico to launch an assault on Susana Martinez, and then attacked Nikki Haley, (another popular female minority governor), mocked Jeb Bush, and blasted Mitt Romney, saying he was “stupid … walked like a penguin [and] choked like a dog.”