“Why Isn’t the G.O.P. Trying Harder to Beat Donald Trump?” asks the headline over a short piece of political analysis by Benjamin Wallace-Wells posted online this week by the New Yorker.
But Stevens observes that Trump’s opponents are letting him have his way. Wallace-Wells writes, “When Trump turned on the Pope, no religious leaders were brought in to point out that this was an attack on the notion, essential to politics in South Carolina, that faith ought to be present in the public square.”
Bartlett cast Hillary Clinton as the firewall between the American people and the disaster of a Trump presidency. Today that firewall doesn’t look as formidable. As Rex Huppke writes in the Thursday Tribune:
