Bernie Sanders’s Political Ancestor, Wayne Lyman Morse
Maybe in a decade or so, we’ll be able to look into history’s rearview mirror and better understand the Republican political traffic—how the contenders started out, changed lanes, passed one another, and fell back, sometimes experiencing serious, or seriocomic, collisions. The off-road campaign of the reality-show star and businessman Donald J. Trump, now the presumptive nominee, may let us see how risky it was to bet the Party’s future on the outcome of a free-for-all that included a provincial Wisconsin governor, a pediatric neurosurgeon, and two unready men from Florida—a Bush and his protégé. In baseball parlance, that was no murderers’ row.