The few Republicans who have not succumbed to the cult of Donald Trump clung to one last hope last week: that the ex-president’s march to his party’s nomination might have been be halted, or at least delayed, by a defeat in the New Hampshire primary at the hands of the former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley. But it was a thin hope.
Regardless of the outcome this week in the snowbound state, the battles ahead are on terrain far more tricky for her and congenial to him. Last Monday, Trump won his party’s contest in Iowa by