Phyllis Schlafly is a trifle upset: "Do you get the message that the media buildup for Jeb Bush has begun and that the 2016 Republican National Convention may simply nominate for president another Establishment loser candidate?"
Poor thing, she is also mightily confused. Her anti-Establishment candidate, in 1964, went down to defeat in nearly historic proportions. He also went on to decry what he had helped to unleash on the nation's politics: "Perhaps I'm one of the reasons this place [Washington, D.C.] is so redneck," he once told an interviewer on clearer reflection. And in his 1980s autobiography he grieved that the new Republican breed was, in its absolutism, rendering democracy "unworkable," since one cannot compromise on whatever is deemed absolutely right.
All this, Ms. Schlafly somehow interprets as the winning approach in a pluralistic society. One could excuse Phyllis on the basis of age. She's 90. The problem with that, though, is that she's been spewing her unaltered rubbish for more than a half-century.