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The Working-Class GOP: A Muddled Concept - Washington Free Beacon
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“We are a working-class party now,” Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley tweeted at 10:53 p.m. Eastern time on election night in November. “That’s the future.” A few minutes later, Fox called Arizona for Joe Biden, beginning a string of reversals for Donald Trump and pointing toward a future quite different than the one Hawley had probably imagined when he posted. Hawley arrived in the Senate two years into the Trump era, and since then has pitched an agenda built around the concerns of the common man and woman. Sympathizing with cultural grievances, as Hawley does in fighting internet pornography, is something at which Republicans have been skilled for decades. Addressing the economic disadvantages of the less-well-off has been a blind spot. While Hawley himself has resisted mandatory increases in the minimum wage, his political world has been heating up recently, and it is changing his politics. When he announced in
In lame-duck fights, Trump may already have eye on 2024 election W. James Antle III © Provided by Washington Examiner
President Trump’s last-minute fights against leaders of both parties on Capitol Hill may not add to his total of first-term legislative victories but could set him up to remain the GOP’s populist leader in a possible bid for a second term.
That is what one Republican strategist described as the “method” to Trump’s “madness” as the president pushes for an increase in individual economic relief payments from $600 to $2,000, says he will send a rescissions package to excise pork from a massive government funding bill he only reluctantly signed after a veto threat, and continues to hold up defense authorization legislation over Big Tech and military base names.
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