Jun 11, 2024
Future historians who write about the 2024 campaign might puzzle
over how the Republican nominee, four years earlier, egged on a mob
to attack Congress, the futile culmination of a months-long scheme
to steal the 2020 election. But rather than end his political
career, he would survive to champion the rioters as victims of the
same nefarious forces arrayed against him and, by extension, the
American people. So it should come as no surprise that the felony
conviction against Donald J. Trump for falsifying business records
in a hush-money scheme with a porn star may not dent his support
very much. What is Trumpism today? Is there more to it than the
man's grievances against prosecutors, judges, and his political
foes? In this episode, the National Review's Dan McLaughlin
discusses the sources of Trump's ongoing dominance of the
Republican Party.