Date: 16‑01‑2021
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Gerald F. Seib
A populist movement rooted in worries about globalization and alienation from elites culminated in the storming of the Capitol. What can conservatives salvage from the debris?
The Trump presidency drew on forerunners including Patrick Buchanan, H. Ross Perot and Sarah Palin.
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—for a political figure who knew how to speak bluntly for the burgeoning ranks of working‑class voters in the GOP.
So he set out to be that guy: a no‑nonsense everyman from outside Washington who talked about the economic travails of a prototypical 45‑year‑old construction worker, the need to use government aggressively to end the opioid crisis in working America, the virtues of law and order, and the need to “stop the Washington bull.” Den Rest des Beitrags lesen »
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