Source: The Dispatch
by Jonah Goldberg
“‘Trump’s Second Term Has Ended the Conservative Era.’ That’s the headline to a column by Ross Douthat that’s been widely discussed in my corner of the world (indeed, we talked about it on The Dispatch Podcast yesterday, and Ramesh Ponnuru has a typically good column obliquely responding to it today). … I am the last person to hold columnists fully accountable to their headlines, because we usually don’t write them. But I should say the title doesn’t really match the essay. That doesn’t mean the headline is wrong or that Ross disagrees with it. But his column is more about how Trump might be remembered. The key word there is ‘might,’ because Ross admits he doesn’t know.” (01/21/26)