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The Republicans have lost the White House. As the election result gradually became clear several days after 3 November ā a week as excruciating and protracted as anything else this dreadful year ā Donald Trump was set to depart the executive mansion one way or another on 20 January.
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Their hope is to ārealignā American politics, making the Democrats the party of big business and the politically correct pieties of the coastal elite, while the Republicans become the party of the working class and of American values: liberty, family, faith.
A leading muse of this new dispensation is Oren Cass, whose think tank, American Compass, proposes a platform for a Republican Party that rejects āmarket fundamentalismā and intervenes in the economy on behalf of working families. Witnessing a Hispanic swing towards Trump ā not just among the more conservative Cubans of Florida, but also in the rural, poor, formerly Democratic bastion of the Rio Grande Valley ā Cass declared that the GOP was becoming a āmulti-ethnic, working-classā party.
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President Trump’s America First trade agenda is worth it.
A New Trade Paradigm
The case for eliminating the U.S. trade deficit, supporting high-quality jobs, and expanding domestic manufacturing through fair and reciprocal trade policies
Beware Americaās fake fiscal conservatives
Republicans are indulging in budgetary chicanery in order to preserve Trumpās tax cuts.
