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Why Would Any Sane Republican Run for President?
If the GOP were to adopt Jeff Anderson and Jay Cost’s presidential-nomination proposal—which would empower the grassroots, feature a real convention, shorten the process, and reduce the outsized influence of the press corps and donor class—“the Republican Party, and American democracy, would be better for it.”