Trump allied Republicans are changing the GOP’s approach to labor, free markets and regulation
The first Trump presidency shattered conservative economic ideology on the Republican Party’s approach to free markets and tariffs.
A second Trump presidency could shatter it on everything else in economic policy.
That’s because the 2024 presidential election is playing out across a dramatically different economic and political landscape than previous Trump campaigns.
Conservative economic thinkers have now had at least eight years to construct an intellectual and policy framework around Trump’s instinctive economic populist message.