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Donald Trump’s hold on the Republican Party is something few could have imagined when he launched what seemed an unlikely bid for the 2016 nomination.
Even if Trump loses reelection Tuesday, his grip on the GOP is strong enough that it could take some time before the party figures out a path forward.
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A new think tank, the American Compass, is trying to make it clear that “post-Trumpism needs to be very different from pre-Trumpism.”
“Trump just proved wrong virtually everything that the right-of-center thought it knew about what its politicians were supposed to be saying, what its constituents actually cared about,” said Executive Director Oren Cass, a former adviser to Sen. Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign.
Cass argued conservative public policy became too dominated by libertarian impulses, a hands-off approach that left a lot of needs unaddressed.
“We see a much more substantial role for public policy to play in making the market work well,” he said.
Recommended Reading
Power Failure
Oren Cass reviews Sohrab Ahmari’s new book, Tyranny, Inc., in First Things.
The Left of the Right
Matthew Continetti on the New Right and American Compass’s role in the realignment
The Nerd Trying to Turn the GOP Populist
New York Magazine on Oren Cass’s quest to make Republicans heed the interests of their working-class base.
