President-elect Donald Trump is not ushering in an administration of conservative populism. He’s pushing a fringe kookery that is marinated as deeply in left-wing shibboleths as it is in right-wing grievances.

This should be no surprise: With very few exceptions, the only identifiably conservative successes in Trump’s first terms came either through merely transactional alliances or through the efforts of former Vice President Mike Pence and the people he placed into office.

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