Will the circle be unbroken?

Not only did commentorion Yastreblyansky warn everyone that Ross Douthat is wringing his beard over what the Intellectual Right did to deserve Trump, he wrote a blog post about it, and thank goodness for that.

I got to the point where Douthat quotes Matthew Continetti (approvingly!?) and thought Do I really want to do this? And then I started to skim and got to the point where he hypothesizes about what might have been if Bush the Younger had found WMD in Iraq and had not boned up the occupation and I thought No, I don’t.