There have seemingly been more 2016 Republican presidential primary postmortems written than there have been Palestinian-Arab schools named after genocidal Jew-killing jihadists. Today, over two-and-a-half years after movement conservative favorite Ted Cruz bowed out of the race in Indianapolis, we on the Right are still distilling, synthesizing, and attempting to chart a proper forward-looking political and intellectual course.
Was Trump victorious over his more traditional political foes due to free media coverage and sheer force of personality, or was it due to his more populist-inclined positions on foreign policy, immigration, and trade? Is “Trumpism” a substantive policy portfolio, or is it a merely attitudinal outlook? To what extent should conservatives reconsider their attachments to any purported excesses of libertarian/neoliberal market “fundamentalism?” What is the nature of the relationship between conservatism, classical liberalism, and nationalism?
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