Henry Olsen at WaPo tells us all about what he thinks Republicans want in The GOP is the party of Trump. Here's an excerpt:
Trump has earned this high level of support because he has delivered on the items of supreme importance to almost every Republican faction. University of New Hampshire professor Dante Scala and I examined these groupings in our book “The Four Faces of the Republican Party.” Pre-Trump, the party had four factions: fiscal conservatives, social conservatives, “somewhat” conservatives (also labeled business conservatives) and moderates. Trump brought new voters into the primary process and created a fifth faction: nationalist conservatives, who want to lower immigration and redo foreign trade deals. Four of these five have received the things they care most about under the Trump administration.
Democrats like to use that word, "nationalist." But he's probably wrong on his description of the fifth group wanting lower immigration. Mr. Olsen does what so many Democrats do, and that's lumping legal immigrants with illegal immigrants together under one name.
But he's right to say that Trump delivered what a lot of conservatives wanted, and that's a better economy than we had. However, there's also the appointment of Constitutional judges -- something almost all conservatives wanted, not just religious conservatives. But one of the most important elements of Trump's appeal to voters is that he doesn't roll over and play dead whenever the msm rips into him. He fights back. Many conservative voters love that contrast between Trump and so, so many of the previous Republican presidential aspirants.
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2:32 PM 2/27/2019
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