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I only know one thing for sure: I won't vote for Trump. My hope is that he will lose by a landslide, and the Republican Party will come to its senses, rejecting both his ugly, nativist populism and the extreme, holier-than-thou conservatism represented by Ted Cruz.

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There is no evidence that Republican leaders have been demonstrably dumber than their Democratic counterparts. During the Reagan years, the G.O.P. briefly became known as the party of ideas, because it harvested so effectively the intellectual labor of conservative think tanks.... In recent years, however, the Republicans' relationship to the realm of ideas has become more and more attenuated as talk-radio hosts and television personalities have taken over the role of defining the conservative movement that once belonged to thinkers.

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Reagan was what John F. Kennedy had been to an earlier generation: an inspirational figure who shaped my worldview. Reagan had his faults, like JFK, but he was optimistic and gentlemanly. He was pro-free trade and pro-immigration. He believed in limited government at home and American leadership abroad. That's what I believed in too — and that's what I thought the Republican Party stood for.

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I have been a Republican as long as I can remember.

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It's hard to know exactly when the Republican Party assumed the mantle of the stupid party.... After decades of masquerading as the stupid party, that's what it has become. But if an unapologetic ignoramus wins the presidency, the consequences will be no laughing matter.

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Many Democrats took all this at face value and congratulated themselves for being smarter than the benighted Republicans. Here's the thing, though: The Republican embrace of anti-intellectualism was, to a large extent, a put-on. At least until now.

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Republican Party is dead. It was wounded by the tea party absolutists who insisted on political purity and rejected any compromise. Now it has been killed by Donald Trump.

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There is no shortage of Republican leaders today.

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