The Grand Old Party is very nearly the Grand Dead Party. This presidential primary has revealed deep rifts in a polarized Republican party that appear every bit as extreme as those dividing the nation. The lack of leadership and the disconnect between the party’s establishment and an enormous faction of its base now mobilized for...
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The GOP has abandoned Reagan
The Republican presidential candidates commemorated the anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth on Saturday. But, far from honoring his legacy, the candidates utterly failed to exhibit his virtues of statesmanship. The average Republican voter frequently says that he wants to vote for the next Reagan. But, in this hunt for a Reagan clone, we have lost...
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Carson voted favorite in campus’s debate exit poll
If Hillsdale students represented the entire United States, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson might feel comfortable about clinching the Republican presidential nomination. In a straw poll conducted last week, Hillsdale College Republicans asked students who attended the club’s “Screen on the Green” of the Sept. 16 GOP primary debate who they would vote for were the...