Hugo Gurdon is the editor-in-chief of the Washington Examiner. He is the former editor-in-chief of the Hill and previously served as an editor and reporter at the Daily Telegraph of London and the National Post of Canada. His writing has also appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal (Europe), Financial Times, and the Guardian.
Some political parties experience a sort of spasm that looks like an effort to alienate voters. Their members detest each other and squabble, shattering the carapace of unity that parties generally try to present to the outside world.
It chose Michael Foot, a well-liked but utterly incompetent old Trotskyite, as its leader. This allowed Thatcher, in 1983, to secure an even bigger landslide victory than she’d managed four years earlier. It was like watching the Romans salt the earth in Carthage. After pulling itself apart for a decade, Labour finally pulled itself together, chose Tony Blair, and regained power in 1997, after 19 years on the outs.
But Republicans are like Labour. They are ripping each other’s throats out over personal and ideological pet causes. In failing to choose a speaker of the House of Representatives, they seem to know only whom they hate and what they refuse to accept, not what or whom they want.
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