Ungovernment

Conservatives' answer to antipolitics is to put politics first

The word “caucus” for a nominating convention apparently has an American origin, from Boston’s Caucus Club in the 1760s, though exactly where they took it from remains completely unclear. Illustration by John Tenniel for the “Nursery” edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (I think 1888).

Dana Milbank’s column reported, as it sometimes does, some ne…