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Donald Trump Is the Perfect Conservative
Trump’s not an establishment conservative? I call bullshit
For the last seven years, I have heard conservatives beat the incessant drumbeat that Donald J. Trump is not a typical or establishment conservative. Don’t look now but he has become the perfect vehicle for Heritage Foundation policies they have pushed since Ronald Reagan. Founded in 1973, Heritage is considered one the premier conservative think tanks in Washington, DC and was founded in response to what the group saw as Richard Nixon’s “liberal policies” and as a counterweight to the liberal Brookings Institution.
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