All Three Legs of the Gipper’s Stool Are Broken
Forty-odd years ago, Reagan defined the Republican coalition as a three-legged stool. These legs may not have pointed in entirely different directions the way that anarcho-communism, technocratic populism, or global nativism would, but they certainly didn’t hold the same centering base principles. Functionally, definitionally opposed and cross-purposed to one another, they all the same began…