Thread by @LarryGlickman

Trumpism certainly represents a departure from “traditional conservatism,” but there are also continuities that are worth noting./1 washingtonpost.com/politics/balzt…

“Owning the libs,” for example, is not a departure from traditional conservatism./2

Also, the cultivation of grievance and victimhood are not departures but continuities, as I show in my book, and I don’t think it is much of a stretch to consider them constitutive ideas./3

In my @BostonReview piece on how the GOP became known as the “party of ideas,” I argued that “cultural anxieties and backlash politics” were part of the mix. /4

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