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One year after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, establishment Republicans as well as establishment Democrats remain at a loss to explain why. To those on the left, Trump is a travesty – a white supremacist and sexist Neanderthal who must be impeached. To those on the right, especially the Never Trumpers, Trump is no less an aberration — a liberal masquerading as a conservative, a fraud willing to say or do anything who somehow won last November and who deserves to be removed today.

But the Trump detractors of the left and right need only remove their blinders to understand what hit them. The voters that put him in office – the “deplorables” unblinded by animus toward the Trump persona — correctly sized up Trump last year. Trump is a true conservative, the genuine article.

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Trump doesn’t talk like a conservative – he doesn’t talk like anyone in the rarified circles of policy wonkdom and officialdom. But his instincts are as conservative as they come, and no Republican – not even Ronald Reagan – can claim a more conservative record in office.