Matthew Continetti
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“On economics, crime, and welfare, the Clinton presidency offered plenty for conservatives to like. They never forgave him for it.”
― The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
― The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
“The Trump method of bluster, ambiguity, threat, and parry created a sense of ongoing crisis. It alienated critics, strained overseas alliances, and exhausted the patience of the electorate. Populism identified real problems and acted as a check on unaccountable elites, but it was also susceptible to demagoguery, scapegoating, and conspiracy theories.”
― The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
― The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
“The writers and thinkers on the margins of the GOP—the Claremont gang, paleoconservatives, social traditionalists, and antiestablishment national populists—felt that Trump’s victory favored their side. Such vindication may have been a mirage. Trump failed to win a popular vote majority—he captured a smaller percentage of the vote than Mitt Romney had in 2012. His Electoral College win rested on seventy-seven thousand voters spread across three states. And for all his personal excesses and haphazard policymaking, Trump stuck rather closely to the Republican agenda of tax cuts, defense spending, and conservative judicial appointments. He rarely broke faith with either the New Right interest groups he had wooed during the campaign or with his core supporters, who would continue to defend him,”
― The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
― The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
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