George Hawley’s review of my book, Progressive Conservatism, reveals an imperfect understanding of the Republican Party, conservatism, and America. He certainly has a very different understanding of the Trump movement than I do, for he sees it the same way the Washington Post does, as a group of “tribal and nasty” voters who are uninterested in political policies. And yet there were sharp policy differences between Trump and the other GOP candidates in 2016. He was speaking to issues that they had forgotten, and he was progressive while they were right-wing ideologues.
