From Goldwater to Trump: When Parties Fail to Stop Alarming Candidates

The history of attempts to halt the rise of an alarming candidate, or even of one who just doesn't fit a party's idea of itself, offers no encouragement to those out to stop Donald J. Trump's march toward the Republican nomination. When you reach a certain point, no cabal of "elders" can rescue anything. That's what the Democratic Party establishment realized in 1976, when it couldn't stop Jimmy Carter. It was hard to accept that a one-term Georgia governor who, moreover, said odd things (despit...