The Old Guard Is Not the Right’s Future
... Republicans are less likely now to back NATO and other international commitments. Republicans are not as greatly concerned with foreign affairs as think tankers are. It was ranked near the bottom of issues that 2024 voters cared about. ... Obsessing over fiscal policy, advocating for more foreign interventions, and being willing to capitulate on immigration is not a winning formula either in the GOP primaries or for a general electorate. ... [David] French, unlike other Never Trumpers, has given up on the GOP entirely. He thinks it’s Trump’s party now and for the foreseeable future.
He’s obviously right. Only an America First candidate, not a Paul Ryan type, can hold the coalition together. ...
The
alt-right fringe is now acceptable at The American Conservative, and in
the line-up at Real Clear Politics, all of which have become completely
incoherent, including on the primacy of fiscal policy, which is the
cause of, and the solution to, all the ills now afflicting the young
people Greer would speak for.
Reagan authored those ills, and Trump has
double-downed on them.
