John Kasich would make sense as the nominee of a Christian Democratic party, on European lines. (If you know only one Christian Democratic politician, it’s Angela Merkel.)

But the Republican Party of America is not, and has never been a Christian Democratic party. It’s been within one realignment of such, I think Bush the Younger got elected intending to make it, but the attempt failed and it’s no longer even that close.

Guy’s running like the last ten years never happened. Shame, and when you consider how it implies he’s trying to live out a carefully planned rise-to-power fantasy conceived decades ago, verges on poignant.

Could be worse, Jim Webb was running like it was still fucking 1992.