The Heritage Foundation might be the biggest winner of 2016. The conservative think tank bet big on Donald Trump by biting their tongue and overlooking many of his conservative heresies. While others turned their nose up at Trump, they were the ones reading the electorate.

With Heritage staffers on Trump’s transition team, the group is sure to grow in influence. But those winnings aren’t without additional risk. They’re in danger of being sucked further into Trump’s populist orbit while trying to fill the Republican’s policy vacuum.