Since President Donald Trump began his march to the top of the Republican Party a decade ago, his backers have offered one simple reason for their support: because he fights.

A hallmark of the New Right, the slice of the conservative movement most fervently in Trump’s corner, is the aggressive use of political power to benefit friends and punish foes.

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