Only a Trumpist could defeat Trump in a Republican primary

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"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."

Ted Kennedy's old line, delivered at the Democratic National Convention just three short months before Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter, was intended as a rallying cry for the confident liberalism that had set the tone and agenda for the nation's politics over the previous three decades. But it ended up serving as an elegy.

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Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.