The GOP hasn't looked this good in ages

It’s also true that if Marco Rubio had been a senator during the Reagan years, he’d have been one of the most conservative senators, way over there on the right with Jesse Helms — while being a considerably sunnier and more Reaganesque figure than Jesse Helms was. Senator Cruz isn’t the “Morning in America” guy — he’s more like Reagan in his “I am paying for this microphone!” mode — but he is one of the smartest and most accomplished men to get close to the nomination in a while. The military contractors wouldn’t love Senator Paul, but who really thinks that a nice big dose of libertarianism would be a terrible thing on balance for these United States after the past decade or two? What conservative doesn’t relish the thought of sly Carly Fiorina taking Hillary Rodham Clinton apart like a high-school biology-lab frog on the debate stage? What governor representing a 50-50 state could sneer at Jeb Bush’s record in Florida? What governor in an insane Democratic state could sneer at Chris Christie’s?

And though conservatives’ internal debates sometimes get a little silly and theatrical, practically the entirety of the meaningful political discourse in our country is taking place on and among the Right. Our argument is Mark Levin and George Will and Reihan Salam; the Left’s debate is Franz the Eternally Wounded Transgender Activist at Amherst vs. Caitlyn the Eternally Wounded Women’s Studies Major at Yale on the subject of which malevolent pronouns turn literary criticism into rape. Take a little time some afternoon and read an issue of National Review cover to cover and then do the same thing with The New Republic. Listen to Justin Amash talk for five minutes and compare him with Bernie Sanders. And if Amash isn’t your thing, check out Cole, Martinez, Abbott, LePage, the ladies and gentlemen of the 38 state legislatures under full (30) or partial (8) Republican control, or one of those 32 Republican governors. The Republicans aren’t having a meltdown — they’re suffering from an embarrassment of riches. White Protestants? Yes, pretty much all the white Protestants. But what about: black Mormon women from Utah? Right here. Millennial women from New York? Meet the youngest member of Congress. Gay California tech titans? Team Cruz.