Time to make conservatism great again

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When Donald Trump becomes president at noon Friday, it will be the end of an era — the Reagan era.

Since 1980, the Republican Party has been explicitly conservative. It tried, sometimes harder than at other times, to govern conservatively. Republican candidates generally campaigned as conservatives. When GOP lawmakers did unconservative things, they tried to give their actions a conservative gloss, or to excuse them as a rare deviation from conservatism.

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