On the Weekly Standard blog, Bill Kristol posits the Democrats as an unhappy groom being frog-marched down the aisle towards an unpleasantly grinning Hillary Clinton, in a wedding planned — can we say 16 years earlier? — a long, long time ago. In the interim, the bride has been caught playing fast and loose with an illegitimate server, while her dubious charms have diminished considerably. The groom can go through with it, leading to hell plus a possible loss in November. Or he can ditch the bride, leading to more hell plus a possible loss in November, as in this race a candidate is required, and the substitute brides are still less alluring.

But wait! A solution is near, inspired by the classic film “The Philadelphia Story,” in which Katharine Hepburn is left by her beau at the altar, at which point Cary Grant, her ex-husband, steps in. Flip the sexes (not hard for a Democrat), change the Democrats to the bride, and have her saved by her old flame, ardent backer and fellow liberal-Democrat, who would be — ta da! — Donald Trump.