The truth is Debbie delivered. Reince didn’t.

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Trump took the opportunity of Wasserman Schultz’s downfall to restate his love for Reince Priebus, her counterpart at the wholly owned Trump subsidiary formerly known as the Republican Party. “Today proves what I have always known,” Trump tweeted Sunday, “that @Reince Priebus is the tough one and the smart one, not Debbie Wasserman Schultz.”

But I spoke to a few longtime Republican operatives in the past few days who had come to the exact opposite conclusion. They viewed the Democratic leaks not with glee, but with palpable envy. That’s because whatever Wasserman Schultz tried to do for Clinton and the Democratic establishment in her underhanded way is exactly what Priebus completely failed to do as his party was being overrun.

You may recall, if you follow these things closely, that Republicans undertook what they actually called an “autopsy” after their losing 2012 campaign — in an effort, I guess, to diagnose whatever flesh-eating virus had transformed Mitt Romney into the leader of the walking dead.

Among the key findings of the report was that the party couldn’t win if it didn’t broaden its base, attracting more women and Latinos. Among the recommendations was that it should allow fewer primary debates — six to 10, rather than the 13 debates held during the 2012 campaign — and that those debates shouldn’t start before September, in order to shorten the primary season. The unstated goal was to shore up support for an establishment candidate and lessen the time he would have to spend playing to an activist audience before pivoting toward a general election.

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To be fair, it’s hard now to see any clear way in which Priebus might have stopped Trump from taking over. It wasn’t his fault that the rest of the vote was split between all these governors and senators who had enough outside money to soldier on for months. All Priebus could do, it seemed, was to wait for someone solid to emerge from the pack and then try to rally the party around him.

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But what the moment really demanded was a more forceful personality — someone more like Wasserman Schultz, with perhaps a touch more likability. You really think Haley Barbour would have sat around watching as some outsider — a New Yorker who mocked the Bush family and praised Planned Parenthood, while driving away Latinos and women with his nativist appeal — tweeted his way to the nomination?

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