Why Romney Lost
David Frum
Wow! That did not turn out as planned!
David Frum is my go-to sensible conservative. He predicted, accurately, that the Affordable Healthcare Act (Obamacare) would pass, calling it the Republican Party's Waterloo. For this he was drummed out of the party. He remains a conservative in the classic meaning of the word.
In this book, written (or at least published) after Mitt Romney lost the 2012 election to Barack Obama, Frum attempts to tell the Republican Party what it should do to become a modern party responsive to voters. It goes without saying that the Party did not do anything like what Frum proposed. And, in a limited sense, he was wrong: the Republicans won the next presidential election, in 2016, with Donald Trump defeating Hillary Clinton.
There is, of course, much more to say about that, and Frum has indeed said some of it in later works. Why Romney Lost is now mostly interesting as a historical document.