Businessman and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. (Steven Senne/AP)

 
I never expected to write these words, but I miss Mitt Romney.

On Wednesday, the day the front-runner for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination was in New Hampshire alleging that Syrian refugees fleeing for their lives may actually be clandestine terrorists, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee was in Washington, talking sense.
Dana Milbank writes about political theater in the nation’s capital. He joined the Post as a political reporter in 2000. 

“Donald Trump will not be the nominee,” Romney told a group of business-school students at Georgetown University. And why won’t Trump, who, when he isn’t besmirching Syrian refugees as terrorists, is maligning Mexican immigrants as rapists, get the nod? Because, Romney said, “when all is said and done, the American people usually do the right thing.”