Institutions are important, and the Republican party has institutions like any other organization.
Even if Trump isn’t running in 2028, MAGA can still materialize into a post-Trump support base for whoever runs as the Republican candidate, because while Trump himself is central to the current conservative movement, it’s ultimately up to the ecosystem and institutions behind Trump that decide whether or not they can continue with this momentum.
This article highlights some of the efforts to coordinate figures within the Republican party in order to build up a voter base, take voters from demographics traditionally Democratic, and transition to a post-Trump future. It also details the history of how Republican institutions and ecosystems metastasized, from the personal histories of coordinating figures (particularly Chris Buskirk), to forming the coalition that binds Evangelicals, industrialists, culture warriors, and others.
Some key highlights:
>“We spent so much time bemoaning the effectiveness of the left,” Masters adds. “They had a pretty terrible agenda … but they are very effective at organizing. … The right had just been coasting for a long time, and its institutions had just started to decay.”
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>As Buskirk sees it, he has approached the political market as a businessman, identifying a gap and taking deliberate steps to close it. The right had what he calls a “coordination problem” — voters who had unexpectedly elected Trump and a nascent group of wealthy people who had become alienated by the progressive left. But the sides lacked organizing infrastructure.
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>Strain, the American Enterprise Institute economist, said the political rhetoric of the MAGA movement misconstrues the nation’s actual economic picture. Technological innovation — and not outsourcing — has been the main driver of the loss of manufacturing jobs, he said, adding that many of those arguing that homegrown manufacturing will revive America are the same investors pushing major labor displacement through artificial intelligence.
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Institutions are important, and the Republican party has institutions like any other organization.
Even if Trump isn’t running in 2028, MAGA can still materialize into a post-Trump support base for whoever runs as the Republican candidate, because while Trump himself is central to the current conservative movement, it’s ultimately up to the ecosystem and institutions behind Trump that decide whether or not they can continue with this momentum.
This article highlights some of the efforts to coordinate figures within the Republican party in order to build up a voter base, take voters from demographics traditionally Democratic, and transition to a post-Trump future. It also details the history of how Republican institutions and ecosystems metastasized, from the personal histories of coordinating figures (particularly Chris Buskirk), to forming the coalition that binds Evangelicals, industrialists, culture warriors, and others.
Some key highlights:
>“We spent so much time bemoaning the effectiveness of the left,” Masters adds. “They had a pretty terrible agenda … but they are very effective at organizing. … The right had just been coasting for a long time, and its institutions had just started to decay.”
>…
>As Buskirk sees it, he has approached the political market as a businessman, identifying a gap and taking deliberate steps to close it. The right had what he calls a “coordination problem” — voters who had unexpectedly elected Trump and a nascent group of wealthy people who had become alienated by the progressive left. But the sides lacked organizing infrastructure.
>…
>Strain, the American Enterprise Institute economist, said the political rhetoric of the MAGA movement misconstrues the nation’s actual economic picture. Technological innovation — and not outsourcing — has been the main driver of the loss of manufacturing jobs, he said, adding that many of those arguing that homegrown manufacturing will revive America are the same investors pushing major labor displacement through artificial intelligence.
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