Why the Old GOP Establishment Mattered

Why the Old GOP Establishment Mattered

I’ve long argued that the best thing Donald Trump did, in his first term in office, was delegate the big stuff to the GOP establishment he thoroughly trashed during his presidential campaign. Despite all the anti-establishment bluster that won him the Republican primary over an impressive group of GOP governors and members of Congress, Trump mostly filled his cabinet with those very types of people — traditional Republicans who, along with a tra…