Published March 26, 2025
This summer will mark Donald Trump’s tenth anniversary as a political candidate and partisan leader. The changes his victories have wrought are literally transforming the world, but it’s worth stepping back to examine how he has transformed the Republican Party and American politics. That transformation is what undergirds everything else and has saved the GOP from the demographic doom loop it otherwise was facing.
Keeping and growing Trump’s now majority coalition should be conservatism’s primary goal over the next decade. To do that, conservative strategists must first understand how he accomplished his political miracle and secondly learn how to preserve that loyalty for the Republican Party after he leaves the scene.
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Henry Olsen, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, studies and provides commentary on American politics. His work focuses on how America’s political order is being upended by populist challenges, from the left and the right. He also studies populism’s impact in other democracies in the developed world.
