Moving On

~I am not sure conservatives – including many readers of this website – quite grasp the scale of what happened on Tuesday. Outgoing Florida governor Ron DeSantis called it “an extinction-level event”, and pointed out that of America’s ten most populous states his was now the only one with a Republican government. At the federal level, as JD Vance observed en passant, the GOP has no realistic expectation of recovering the Senate until the mid-2030s.(Snip) I am doubtful that either Cruz, DeSantis or Vance will be the ’28 nominee, but they are all declaring that the curtain has come down on the Trump show.