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If Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan decided to be a presidential candidate next year, she would be barred from the debates. The GOP debate rules include a pledge to support the Republican 2024 presidential nominee and Ms. Noonan makes it clear, from the opening paragraph of her latest weekend column that she would not back a Trump candidacy.Noonan declares in her lede paragraph that if "Trump Republicans" nominate the former president next year, "they will have ended the Republican Party." That there be no mistaking her comment as mere figurative remark, she declares in the following paragraph: "I mean...

A Wall Street Journal editor exposes his Trump-hating demons for all to see. If Paul A. Gigot, editor of the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, had written his October 22 editorial, "No Sympathy for Steve Bannon" for a course in Trump-loathing, his editorial would have gotten an A+. If, however, he submitted the editorial to a course in Congressional Procedure, he would have gotten an F. Let me explain. The Journal's October 22 editorial agreed that Mr. Bannon should go to jail for flouting the "lawful subpoena" issued to him by the House Select Committee on Jan. 6....