{"id":2486,"date":"2021-01-15T19:38:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T00:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americancompass.beckandstone.com\/where-trump-came-from-and-where-trumpism-is-going\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:41:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:41:11","slug":"where-trump-came-from-and-where-trumpism-is-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americancompass.org\/where-trump-came-from-and-where-trumpism-is-going\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Trump Came From\u2014and Where Trumpism Is Going"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the outset of the 2016 presidential campaign, Chris Christie, then the governor of New Jersey, sensed a yearning within a changed Republican Party for a populist voice\u2014for a political figure who knew how to speak bluntly for the burgeoning ranks of working-class voters in the GOP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet he also made his presidency almost entirely about himself personally rather than the broader movement he was trying to lead. \u201cThis guy was totally unaware of both the machinery that is available to him and how the whole team should be working together,\u201d says Edwin Feulner, longtime leader of the conservative Heritage Foundation and head of domestic policy on the initial Trump transition team. That personalization prevented the Trump movement from sinking deep roots. As American Compass, an organization of young, conservative economic thinkers, concluded in a retrospective analysis: \u201cTrumpism cannot be declared a \u2018success\u2019 or a \u2018failure\u2019 because it did not exist. 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