Why No Republican Is Ever ‘Reasonable’ Enough for the Left

I’m about to unload on a human type that I’ve been encountering for eons and whose representatives continue to annoy me. Most (if not all) of these tiresome creatures have been academics, and all of them have told me repeatedly that they’re dying to vote for a “nice, reasonable” Republican. Unfortunately, the party in question just won’t nominate the kind of candidate my acquaintances would be keen to support. When I ask which Republicans they might back, they predictably name Charlie Baker or another ultraliberal, nominally Republican governor, often from New England.

This year, Nikki Haley seems to have joined the group of Republicans whom the “moderate” acquaintances I know might consider voting for in the presidential election (or so they say). They insist that if all Republicans could be pleasant and benevolent — like “that nice fellow Tim Walz,” as one family friend described — then they’d provide an acceptable alternative to our consistently moderate Democratic Party.

I would love to vote for a Democratic candidate, but unfortunately the Democrats aren’t running Grover Cleveland or even Adlai Stevenson this year.

Although my acquaintances grouse about “immoderateness” in American politics, that problem has not yet beset the party of gender fluidity, taxing unrealized capital gains, bailing out black revolutionaries who are burning down American cities, and banning gender-specific pronouns. If only Republicans could be more like Democrats, then my friends would have a real electoral choice between members of different parties whom they consider equally worthy of their vote.

The last thing these people want in American politics are clear ideological choices. What they really desire are two national parties that never deviate from leftist party lines. But I’m not sure these “moderates” or “independents” would change their party allegiance even if the desired choice were available. They just want to make sure that both national parties are on the left, that neither causes any problems for our expanding administrative state and for those who run it, and that all social issues are resolved by woke administrators and judges. At that point, it won’t matter if the Democratic candidates win because there won’t be any serious ideological alternative for us to vote for. […]

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