"This is the end of Trumpism!" "Conservative Populism, RIP." "Goodbye, MAGA!"If these pronouncements sound familiar, it’s because they are.The same people predicting this now in op-eds, online and in podcasts predicted the same after Trump’s first impeachment, after the 2020 election, after January 6th, after the second impeachment, and after every criminal indictment filed against him.Their wishful thinking is as dim-witted now as it was then.TRUMP HIGHLIGHTS THE 'POWER OF VETO' AS DEMS EXPECTED TO TAKE HOUSE, SENATEAny fair-minded political analyst would admit that over the past decade, Donald Trump has been the most consequential leader in the world, and that he has accomplished more than any Republican president in at least the past 100 years.
His record should not be judged on midterm results but on what it has delivered.And if the question on the table is "Should Trump’s policies continue?" the record says yes — politically, economically, geopolitically and culturally.Critics predicted Trump would destroy the Republican Party and set back American conservatism.
The opposite happened.Across the West, the right has either collapsed or made its peace with the governing consensus.
Canada hasn't had a conservative prime minister since 2015.Britain's Conservatives hold just 118 of 650 seats in the House of Commons.
Marine Le Pen has never cleared 42 percent of the vote in a French presidential election.Germany's conservatives govern in coalition with the Social Democrats, and in Italy, The Economist recently praised Giorgia Meloni for "tacking to the middle."Only in America has the right governed on low taxes, lighter regulation, social conservatism and a strong military — and kept winning.
Democrats had little trouble beating moderate Republicans like John McCain and Mitt Romney.Trump has confounded them for most of a decade.
No other leader on the Western right can say that.We were told populism would wreck the economy.It hasn't.Trump worked with ...