When This Blows Over

populist -
nationalists
idea-driven
conservatives
I am convinced of this: The winner of this battle will
determine the fate of conservatism in this
generation. The latter must, must, must defeat the
former.
We found out in 2016 that there is such thing as an
Obama-Trump voter. Everyone wants to believe that the
government can solve their problems, or that a strong
man can. The Obama coalition fell apart for Hillary
Clinton because she was not credible, exciting, believable,
or desirable. Millennials don’t trust her. Working class
whites loathe her. And the African-American vote appears
to have voted for her in expected proportions but with
much lower turnout. But conservatives better admit this:
Trump picked up the votes needed to win for the same
asinine reason Obama initially did – novelty, and
messianic hope.