What would the American Marius look like?
Since the rise to prominence of Donald Trump in the GOP Primaries, the question on many disbelieving political players and pundits’ minds is: what is driving the Republican electorate away from the establishment conservative candidates and towards the unconventional Donald Trump? What is their beef? As has been well laid out by the commentary, there is a disaffected white middle class that has seen its interests inexorably decline over the last 16 years resulting in an angry electorate looking to shake up Washington. But here’s where the commentary, particularly on the conservative side, starts to become confused. To some, conservative politicians have not been conservative enough nor consistent enough. In a sentence, they have not been consistently conservative enough, a line toed by Ted Cruz and his supporters. But the disenchantment is also purportedly fed by the functional breakdown in Washington, its inability to get things done, which is surely the consequence of the dogmatic...