The behavior of the conservative movement over the last three or four months reminds me of a conversation that the British writer Nancy Mitford overheard in France. Two old noblemen were talking about a third. One said, “Mais il est tres gauche [but he’s very left-wing]. He is Orleaniste.”

The joke is that neither of France’s dueling royal families, the House of Bourbon (the legitimate line) or the House of Orleans (upstart cousins), had been in power since 1848. The old geezers were talking after World War II.

Our main priority has been conserving the conservative movement. Our reward is a GOP frontrunner whose main priority has been national security, and who has contempt for conservatives.

Maybe just maybe some of that contempt is deserved.