What If This Is Just the Beginning?

This era of American politics has got a fever, and there’s no antidote in sight.

Someday, we will all put our feet up, crack a cold one, and look back at those crazy years when America lost its damn mind.

That’s the view of the New York Times’ David French. Never one to sugarcoat the dire state in which modern conservatism finds itself, he nonetheless ended a recent column with a note of optimism.

“This era of American politics will end, one way or the other,” French wrote. “And when it does, historians...