I suspect Mr. Boaz and his puppet posting this article are now just puppets of the GOPe. If that is the case, that is sad. The GOPe is not on the side of America. They refuse to defund Obamacare, curtail surveillance, control the border, cut taxes, cut regulation, reign in the courts and executive or do anything substantive to restore American greatness.
Being a very long time Cato supporter I know the history and value of Cato. Cato has a libertarian ideological consensus which hash been a valuable counterweight to statists like Bush, Ryan, McDonnell, etc. But now that seems to be changing, at least temporarily.
Any "conservative ideological consensus" that exists in the GOP is strictly lip service. The reality is that the GOP has been corrupted by power and needs to be dismantled. Instead of limited government that Cato has supported for its existence, the GOP supports greater federal power and intrusion into state, local and personal affairs with no limit whatsoever.
What broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP?
Okay, so let’s say that the conservatives manage to oust Trump.
What then? Who do back after that? Cruz? The GOP/DNC will chew him up and spit him out. Crispy/Carson/Fiorina? They’re non-starters.
No, the GOP/DNC want JEB. He was supposed to be the “inevitable” candidate/cannon fodder for this election cycle. Trump and Cruz threw a monkey wrench into their plans, and now they want blood, consequences be damned.
Shouldn't everyone ask what's NR's real problem with Trump?
[[David Boaz is the executive vice president of the Cato Institute]]
Boaz is also an open-borders homosexual who favors imposing gay marriage on the country.
More D.C.’ism?
They all swim around a sewer while asking, “You smell something? I don’t smell a thing. Might be coming in from outside...”.
Guess the cocktail circuit was drying out. The gnashing of teeth and angst with the threat of ending the party.