What Trump Can Learn From the Last G.O.P. Disaster

What Trump Can Learn From the Last G.O.P. Disaster

This is not my first vibe shift. I was there the last time that the American right seemed to have suddenly claimed a real cultural advantage, the last time liberals and the Democratic Party seemed not just politically defeated but existentially baffled, the last time that people talked about conservatism as a rising counterculture poised to rout and remake the establishment. These have been the vibes around Donald Trump’s return to power, and th…