As Mr. Mirengoff admits, Tangerine could scarcely have been a worse candidate for the GOP in 2024.

Later today, America will tell the GOP that hate is a losing brand.

Paul fully accepts that, even though for almost 10 years… He and the Powerline boys helped create the monstrous mythology of… Trump — as anything other than the reprobate he actually is. And always has been — his whole adult life.

Only now does Mirengoff admit that the boys each, over the last decade, had a substantial hand in making America meaner, smaller and more backward than it has been in well-over 70 years (back to Barry Goldwater’s days on the national radar):

…In both cycles, Republicans will have come up short…

What a wasted decade they all set out to make, and in fact… made.

Game over.