The death of the Washington Post’s favorite austere, pious religious scholar should help President Trump and his political party. It may heal, or at least paper over, the schisms between his base and the much less enchanted wings of the party.
Just as the Kavanaugh hearing, this event transcends all divisions on the Right. The late Arizona Sen. John McCain would have relished this venture, as do Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, and all of the Bushes. The spirits of President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher beamed down on it all from above. The Republicans, who have been the party of freedom and of the force that sustains it since President John F. Kennedy’s torch had been dropped by Democratic South Dakota Sen. George McGovern, can reclaim some of their old sense of mission.
