Commentary  The actions of the Democratic Party, corporate America, Silicon Valley, and academia, not just in the last several days but in the last several years, should convince all Republicans of a social or religious conservative bent that they’re no longer in a standard political contest. The battle has changed. In the old days, when Democrats won, they proceeded to push their politics everywhere they could. We won, you lost, they could say, and that gave them power to push this regulation and that legislation. Republicans could push back where possible and plan for the next election. They didn’t have to spend much time justifying their own existence. That, right there, is the new challenge. Perhaps it started with the Bush–Gore contest in Florida, where the first “not-my-president” outcries were heard (as far as I know). The Tea Party of 2010, too, struck liberals as a crazy interruption of normal politics, …