Nick Fuentes is a portent of where conservatism is heading

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Bootleggers and Baptists. The public choice economist Bruce Yandle coined the phrase to describe how apparently opposed groups might have a shared interest in government regulation — in that case, Prohibition.

I wonder, though, whether his concept has a wider application. Which political groups benefit most from the Donald Trump presidency? His own supporters, naturally; but also those like Zohran Mamdani, whose voters were motivated by a desire to poke Trump in the eye.

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