As Republicans face a tough election, they must remember the words of Zhang Yu, a commentator on the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War”: “Attack is the secret of defense.”
The Washington Post scorned President Truman as a “spoilsman” who “underestimated the people’s intelligence.” New York Times columnist James Reston wrote off President Eisenhower as “a tired man in a period of turbulence.” At the end of President Reagan’s...