Someone Tell Noonan the GOP Is No Longer the Party of Noblesse Oblige

Yup, it was telegraphed: 

“The race is well within the margin of cheating and Democrats are much more inclined to cheat. That’s why they are against voter ID, against signature matching, for cheat-by-mail and don’t want Republicans to watch the votes being counted.” (Alex Marlow)

Peggy Noonan is resigned: 

“‘Landslide Lyndon,’ ‘Vote early and often for Curley’—these are part of our political vocabulary for a reason. JFK [won]…with the votes of the dead. A certain amount of misbehavior is in our genes, and in democracy’s. Elections are human enterprises.”

Interesting that all the examples she brings up - LBJ, JFK and James Curley - were all Democrat politicians. It seems that particular vice is mostly in Democrats’ genes.

She then goes on to applaud Nixon for not contesting the 1960 election and suggests Trump should do the same. She says fighting for the election can lead to fighting in the streets. In other words, the Republican role is to be the adult in the room and enable Democrat bad behavior. That’s been the modus operandi for many a year, with Republicans taking the role as gracious losers. Noblesse oblige. But now the parties are realigning and the working class is drawn to Republicans (more specifically, to Trump), and they aren’t much into that noblesse oblige because they aren’t that privileged. 

I’m just hoping the Democrat effectiveness at cheating will bleed into effectiveness at governance though there’s certainly been no history of that.