Donald Trump has started his second presidency with a bang, issuing hard-hitting policies faster than any president in history. But what’s even more impressive is that Trump has shattered the long-running competition between conservatism and liberalism in public life. He has given America a new approach to governing, one that’s fundamentally different from anything that came before.

Until Trump, politics was divided for decades between two opposing camps, in more ways than one. That starts with conservatism. Since its establishment in the 1950s, the conservative movement has been a largely intellectual project, focusing on the impact of big ideas on society. While those ideas were true, conservatism paid insufficient attention to enacting them in real life — i.e., what does it practically mean to “renew civil society”? Even as conservatism has split between the “freedom” and “national” camps in recent years, the focus on philosophy has stayed the same. Think of the national conservative focus on “sovereignty,” for instance.