The G.O.P.’s Problems Go Well Beyond Trump

I am interrupting the ongoing Donald Trump circus to bring you a couple of public-service announcements. To be sure, they aren’t as titillating as speculating about whether Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity are talking to each other. But if we are really interested in the outcome of the election in November, 2016, and the ultimate welfare of the country, they are much more significant. Taken together, they show how the G.O.P. is facing a dilemma that goes well beyond the fact that, for now, its Presidential primary has been hijacked by a self-promoting megalomaniac.

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