{"id":12569,"date":"2020-08-20T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12569"},"modified":"2020-08-18T09:06:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T16:06:43","slug":"trumpism-a-look-backward-and-forward-to-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trumpism-a-look-backward-and-forward-to-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Trumpism\u2014A Look Backward and Forward to November"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps 70 percent of Trumpism remains a hodgepodge of Reaganism: strong defense, realist foreign policy, deregulation, smaller government, big deficits, tax cuts, energy growth, and stars-and-stripes traditionalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it is the other unorthodox 30 percent that excited his base, terrified conservative apostates, and won Trump the 2016 election by energizing between 4 million and 6 million voters in swing states who had either given up on Republicans, or on elections altogether. NeverTrumpers talk of Trump\u2019s demise and their own resurrection as Phoenixes to rebirth the GOP. They have no idea that those who despise them had ensured their Beltway-preferred candidates could rarely win; nothing has changed since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trumpist conservatism is usually defined as not free, but&nbsp;<em>fair<\/em>&nbsp;trade, strict enforcement of immigration laws, an end to optional interventions that will not likely, in a cost-to-benefit analysis, result in U.S. interests or strategic calm for a purported troubled region, and a belief that industry and manufacturing are not brick-and-mortar anachronisms, but the creators of what we cook on, sit on, live in, drive, and work in; our non-virtual world that everyone relies on and yet takes for granted as so pass\u00e9.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/08\/16\/trumpism-a-look-backward-and-forward-to-november\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Perhaps 70 percent of Trumpism remains a hodgepodge of Reaganism: strong defense, realist foreign policy, deregulation, smaller government, big deficits, tax cuts, energy growth, and stars-and-stripes traditionalism. But it is the other unorthodox 30 percent that excited his base, terrified conservative apostates, and won Trump the 2016 election by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3gJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10167,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/can-trump-successfully-remodel-the-gop\/","url_meta":{"origin":12569,"position":0},"title":"Can Trump Successfully Remodel the GOP?","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review If Trumpism succeeds, it could replace mainstream Republicanism. 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