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Guest Essay

By Matthew Walther

Mr. Walther is the editor of The Lamp, a Catholic literary journal, and a contributing Opinion writer.

In 1935, the English journalist George Dangerfield published a book-length political obituary for the British Liberal Party, which only a few decades earlier had found itself “flushed with one of the greatest victories of all time” after winning a commanding parliamentary majority and passing a series of long-sought reforms. “From that victory,” Mr. Dangerfield wrote, “they never recovered.”

Nearly a century after its publication, “The Strange Death of Liberal England” still makes for instructive reading — especially after the recent annual gathering of Turning Point USA, where conservative infighting seemed to threaten President Trump’s remarkable........

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