What Trump alums are doing now can be divided in two groups those promoting Trump and the MAGA movement, and those who are going more traditional routes. It underscores the GOP divide Trump created.
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Michael Flynn, a onetime national security adviser to former President Donald Trump, was videotaped in Texas over the weekend pushing talking points of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory and also seeming to endorse a coup in the United States, though he later said he doesn’t back a coup.
Flynn is one of many Trump acolytes who, along with the former president himself, continue to push the lie that Trump actually won the 2020 election.
Flynn’s claims on the issue are just one way in which Trump allies are trying to maintain the MAGA movement. A review of what Trump alums are up to shows that there are two distinct groups: those who are going all-in on Trump and MAGA, often creating new entities to institutionalize the movement outside of established GOP circles; and those who are going more traditional conservative routes.
Trump acolytes craft parallel GOP universe so Trumpism lives on
Bill Allison
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Washington Allies of Donald Trump have built an ecosystem of think tanks, fundraising outfits and professional development organizations designed to push his populist agenda for years to come whether or not the former president ever seeks office again.
With Trump-like branding, a number of the groups are named after his America First philosophy and serve to challenge the conservative orthodoxy of groups like the Heritage Foundation or the American Enterprise Institute whose ideas have guided generations of Republican politicians.
The aim is to develop the former president’s unorthodox policy preferences into a coherent program, ready-made for a new generation of politicians to adopt and carry out. No fewer than six new organizations so far are devoted to carrying on his policy legacy.
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