Party of Reagan? Please. This GOP Is the Appeaser Generation.

Forty years ago, Jeane Kirkpatrick, a hawkish former Democrat who was Ronald Reagan’s U.N. ambassador, electrified the 1984 Republican convention by railing against the supposed “Blame America first” weakness of the Democrats. Kirkpatrick, a prominent neoconservative, claimed that the Democrats were behaving “less like a dove or a hawk than an ostrich—convinced it would shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.” Kirkpatrick was adroitly playing off imagery that had haunted the Democrats since the era of Harry Truman...