There is no way around it: The Iowa caucuses on Monday, the kickoff of the 2024 presidential election, are not really about competing visions for the future of the Republican Party. They are not a battle between dueling ideologies or policy priorities or America's role in the world. They revolve around one man, the gravitational center of Republican politics for nearly a decade: the former and perhaps future President Donald J. Trump.
But if there was a common theme, it is one shared with Democrats this year, too. Republicans do not feel good about their choices or the political system that served them up. In Iowa, they are taking their first steps into this election year with trepidation, fear and their fingers crossed.
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