Excellent we-are-doomed-doomed talk from Pat Buchanan here. This sentence

caught my eye though: “So, Mr. Buchanan concludes, Republicans have

’abdicated from the cultural war. They’ve stacked arms.’”

Is this actually U.S. military usage? The British army doesn’t stack arms,

it piles arms. The old Lee Enfield had a piling swivel for precisely this

purpose.