Cornyn’s loss signals the end of GOP cultural appeasement

The Smithsonian’s twin shrines to identity politics had a deservedly rough political week. 

In Tuesday’s Texas primary, the Senate champion of the Latino Museum went down in an inglorious defeat. Meanwhile, four days earlier, the House rejected a bill advancing construction of the women’s museum — because an amendment said it had to be about women!

That the chief supporters of both woke indoctrination factories are Republicans — John Cornyn (R-Texas) in the Senate and Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) in the House — says a lot about what is taking place inside the GOP. 

One side seems to want no part of what it disdains as “the culture wars,” the messy business of recapturing cultural ground seized by the woke Left. The other, siding with President Donald Trump, wants no part of the Left’s plan to radicalize groups it describes as marginalized.

Cornyn’s loss is being analyzed from many angles. He barely managed