What a confusion of names and acronyms...the reason this is confusing is that Jonah Goldberg is trying to hide from the collation that elected Bush, Reagan that includes white nationalists, extreme racists(...oxymoronic?) I assume that people can be bearing residual racism and yet choose to act on their better values and to learn...you can't spout or support racism when it wins you elections, when you gain power, and then claim you are not an active supporter of racism. The GOP has always built is elections on racism, voter suppression is strong in many states based on racism...most new, if not all, voter ID laws are racist. So Jonah wants to be a purist conservative unsullied by the team members he has joined. If he, like Paul Ryan needs a new party, great! I'd love a Conservative party who also understands the positive goal for government. The need to pay as we go as taxes are a sign of a civil society. But what now passes for 'conservative' has been polluted, drain the pool