Credit former Vice President Mike Pence for continuing to carry the Madisonian, Reaganite, conservative banner even as the Trumpist semi-Right runs into sewer holes where autocrats are embraced, basic decency is considered weakness, conspiracy theories are welcomed, big government is OK if it is used for the aims of one’s own side, and freedom takes a back seat to retributive order.

To that end, the organization Pence founded three years ago, Advancing American Freedom, is launching an aggressive, $20 million “American Solutions Project,” with some major conservative leaders, to push Reaganite ideals while fighting against “unprincipled populism.” Ed Feulner, the founder and longtime president of the Heritage Foundation in its heyday, will join the board. So will Art Pope, a political legend in North Carolina responsible for decades of conservative successes there.