Conservatives are appalled by Donald Drumpf. But that’s not because they disagree with him, notes Reason Foundation Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia, but because they don’t. By putting the right face on the right’s ideas, he is offering truth in advertising.
Scan the signature issue of every conservative faction—paleo, neo, or populist—and you’ll see that The Donald is for it.
Nativism—check.
Protectionism—check.
Bare-knuckles foreign policy—check.
If he had been more attractive and less boorish, notes Dalmia, instead of driving varied conservative factions to band together in a #NeverTrump movement against him, he might well have led them in a #ForeverTrump movement for him.
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