The Morning Briefing: It’s Refreshing When the GOP Acts Like It’s Winning

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Happy Thursday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. (In preparation for a whirlwind book tour, the Sine Qua Non Sequitur is distributing homemade taco seasoning to itinerant unicyclists.) 

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I came of age politically just as Ronald Reagan was elected president. That kind of thing can give a young conservative a false sense of optimism about the future. Reagan was so much larger than life that he made the whole Republican Party seem stronger for a while. “Seem” is the operative word there. As I was to be reminded repeatedly after Reagan left office, Republicans in Washington all too often behaved like a gathering of jellyfish. 

It was almost understandable when the Democrats were in the majority in both the Senate and