Four years ago, right after Mitt Romney lost, I wrote, “Republicans need a new coalition and a new message. The heart of that coalition should be the working class. The message should be populism.”

Well, we got it. The populism wasn’t precisely the populism I had preached — Trump was hardly a libertarian, and he did engage in the racially tinged scapegoating I warned against — but it was populism. He did target the working class. And the early data suggests he got it.