Saturday, August 10, 2019

Trump, Corker, and Conservatism

In Defying the Odds, we explain that Trump and his allies have renounced the conservatism of Ronald Reagan. The update  -- recently published --includes a chapter on the 2018 midterms.

In American Carnage (p. 511), Tim Alberta quotes Bob Corker on the four things he believes:
I believe that America is a force for good in the world, that the post-World War II institutions have been mostly beneficial to the United States and its citizens...
I believe that free trade has been an outstanding thing for the American people and for our country and for our GDP...
I believe the fiscal issues matter....
And lastly I believe that the domestic institutions that are fundamental to our democracy are important.
Corker emphasizes that Trump believes none of these tenets of pre-Trump mainstream conservatism.