Trump has become a Republican
Trump has become a Republican
A forgotten question from the 2016 Republican primary was whether Donald Trump was a true Republican or simply a Republican of convenience, and he ran for the GOP nomination because it was what he thought he could get. A few experts insisted that he had no real ideology other than "win" and "make the United States big again."
Some of Mr. Trump's most frightened conservative critics even hinted that he was an undercover Democrat seeking to blow up the Republican Party. "This is a man who for 40 years has given money to Jimmy Carter, to Joe Biden, to Hillary Clinton, to Chuck Schumer, to Harry Reid," Sen. Ted Cruz said during a debate before Super Tuesday.
Mr. Trump's behavior in the first part did little to alleviate those concerns. He did everything possible to cultivate the image of a free political agent. As president-elect, he tweeted that he and Mr. Schumer had an especially good relationship: "He is much smarter than Harry R." - Reid, Mr. Schumer's predecessor - "and has the ability to do things." He reports that Mr. Trump was ready to negotiate with his friends "Chuck" and "Nancy" Pelosi on everything from infrastructure to medical care, which sent a shiver of fear through the Republican leadership on the Capitol.
However, at the midpoint of his first term, Mr. Trump is more partisan Republican now than when he won the nomination and the presidency in 2016. Two years of intense political battles have pushed him into a close embrace with the Republican "Establishment "once promised to destroy. The Trump administration is equipped with characters that would not be out of place in a White House of Cruz, Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio. He has been fighting in the political trenches along with President Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on matters of deregulation, immigration, tax cuts and judicial nominations.
All that proximity was destined to generate some bonds of loyalty. Fox eyes tend to turn soldiers into brothers.
The president's own rhetoric has become more partisan. While he once thought the American people "want to see a dialogue" between the parties, he warned in an article on Fox News this week that Democrats are preparing to "bring a giant ball of demolition" to the economy. "If the minority leader of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat, and the Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., take control of Congress," he wrote, "they will drag States United again to the economic abyss that cost us so much to climb out of. "
While Mr. Trump is preparing to run for re-election as a Republican, he surely understands that it will not do him any good to play with Chuck and Nancy. You will need the support of the party that now leads to defend against the challengers, from inside and outside.
Mr. Trump is nothing if not a good meteorologist; He knows how the winds blow. In 2016 they blew against the establishment; in 2018 they are raching towards the impeachment. Two years of savage conversations by the "resistance" about their alleged crimes against decency, democracy and everything that is sacred have surely opened the eyes of Trump to a cold reality: Republicans are the only friends he has.
Mr. Hennessey is the deputy editorial editor of the magazine.
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