Des Moines, Iowa: You could argue that Donald Trump managed to lose on Monday night not just to the first place winner, Ted Cruz, but to Marco Rubio, who came in third. Rubio's third place might well turn out to be the most significant single result of the Iowa caucuses for Republicans. The Republican Party is in crisis as a direct result of the pressures that have built up within its ranks through the long phony war leading up to this first race of the election season. Early last year the party's Washington establishment and its donor class had expected to see a nomination race among people they liked or at least understood - governors and former...
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