You can tell what kind of conservative a person is by discovering what year he wants to go back to. For Trump, it seems to be sometime between 1830 and 1899. “The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts,” he declared in his address. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/opinion/trump-mckinley-populism.html
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1/ Now we live amid another crisis of authority. Our system has not managed to keep up with the savage inequalities produced by the information age — especially between the college educated and the less educated.
(today) Populists are again indignant and on the march. But, as before, they have no compelling theory of change.