GOP candidates are appealing to a sense of nostalgia. Who’s looking to the future?
But “again” also captures a craving in the battered regions of the country for the economic stability associated with the three decades after World War II. Trump has no coherent plan for restoration other than the blunderbuss ofTrump’s Republican opponents are handcuffed not only by their reluctance to risk alienating his loyalists by taking him on but also by their ideological fealty to Reagan’s market faith and tea party thinking.
A cadre of GOP politicians have begun to challenge market purity, but they are a small minority — and do not want to take Trump on.Successful parties find a way to honor their traditions while absorbing new realities. Dwight Eisenhower broke the Democrats’ 20-year hold on power in 1952 by broadly accepting the reforms of the New Deal. It’s often forgotten that in 2000, George W. Bush adjusted to Clintonism, ran on “compassion” and spoke of reforming education and immigration.
In 2023, our economic challenges call for reinvention. Like it or not, “Bidenomics” accepts that it’s not the 1980s or 1990s anymore. The GOP’s policy imagination is still stuck in the era of Lee Greenwood, the venerable country singer the party reveres. The first Republican president had a plan for this. “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present,” Abraham LincolnRepublicans who understand the urgency of preventing a catastrophic Trump second term have a lot of disenthralling to do.
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