Trump forgets his base is populists and conservatives

Published December 23, 2018 5:00am ET



When candidate Donald J. Trump steamrolled American politics in 2016, he seemed to understand the coalition available to him was an eclectic bunch that felt its issues had been ignored.

They were both populists and conservatives, and they placed him in office.

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