Once upon a time, there was a group of conservative intellectuals who were agnostic about Donald Trump.
They were not “Never Trumpers,” but they weren’t Trump superfans either.
They thought Trumpism might offer something new for the GOP. Since Trump wasn’t tied to the orthodoxies of either party he could, theoretically, offer a more populist path toward the future for Republicans.
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