Back then, the Republican Party was the party of foreign policy interventionism, free trade and cutting entitlements, and Trump was the insurgent outsider unafraid to buck the consensus.
The primary, then, raises some important questions: How has Donald Trump changed the Republican Party over the past eight years?
Is Trumpism an actual set of policy views or just a political aesthetic?
And if Trump does become the nominee again, where does the party go from here?
From these different perches, he has closely traced the various ways the Republican Party has and, crucially, has not changed over the past decade.
Persons:
Donald Trump, Trump, “, Ezra Klein, Ben Domenech, George W, He’s
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Republican, Republican Party, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google, Fox News, The Spectator