J. D. Vance and a Vision of the Post-Trump Republican Party

Over the nine years of the Trump era in American politics, Donald Trump has had two major salutary influences on the Republican Party’s prospects and direction: He solidified and entrenched a consensus on the right in favor of immigration restrictionism and border enforcement, and he forged a consensus that views a close relationship and open trade with Communist China as both a grave national-security danger and the cause of a deleterious atrophy of the American industrial base and working class.