Max Boot: "The Republican Party Is Dead."

++Appearing in today's Los Angeles Times, leading neoconservative Max Boot, a refugee from the Soviet Union and subsequently a foreign policy adviser to John McCain, Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio, says the GOP was wounded by tea party absolutists and killed by Donald Trump.

++"Trump is an ignorant demagogue who traffics in racist and misogynistic slurs and conspiracy theories. He champions protectionism and isolationism--the policies that brought us the Great Depression and World War II.  He would abandon Japan and South Korea and breakup the most successful alliance in history--NATO. He has kind words for tyrants such as Vladimir Putin." 

++"There has never been a major party nominee in U.S. history as unqualified for the presidency. 

++"The risk of Trump, however remote,becoming President represents the biggest national security threat the United States faces."

++"He will support Hillary Clinton because she is more hawkish than Barack Obama but will not become a Democrat because he doesn't feel "the Bern".