Tucker Carlson’s infamous monologue about the working class’s struggle with Republican economic orthodoxy precipitated a maelstrom of debate within the conservative movement. The National Review crowd, gatekeepers of mainstream right-of-center opinion, decried Carlson’s protestation, calling it “victimhood populism.” More heterodox conservative thinkers embraced some, if not all, of the message. If these Burkean dissidents, by no means uniform in their views, disagreed with parts of Carlson’s argument, they agreed wholeheartedly with its sentiment: The Republican Party’s position on trade, economics, foreign policy, and immigration has been tried and found dreadfully wanting for the current age. The election of Donald Trump, with his non-austere views on entitlements and government spending, showed that the old three-variable Reaganite formula isn’t necessary for electoral victory. The 45th president may govern as a traditional...(Read Full Article)