President Donald Trump’s decision to name Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his vice presidential running mate has solidified the Republican Party’s transformation from a party of Wall Street and the country club into the party of Main Street and, in the words of Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam, the “party of Sam’s Club.”

Almost 20 years ago, Douthat and Salam wrote that “this is the Republican Party of today — an increasingly working-class party, dependent for its power on supermajorities of the white working class vote, and a party whose constituents are surprisingly comfortable with bad-but-popular liberal ideas like raising the minimum wage, expanding clumsy environmental regulations, or hiking taxes on the wealthy to fund a healthcare entitlement. To borrow a phrase from Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, Republicans are now ‘the party of Sam’s Club.’”