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Across most of the American heartland, the ideal of the self-reliant individual and a reverence for free-market capitalism severely limit any platform calling for significant expansion of the federal ...

Conservatism is in decline. True, it’s not dead — in 2025, a larger share of Americans described themselves as conservative (35%) than liberal (28%) — but this seven-point difference is the smallest ...

Donald Trump spent his first term as the frustrated caretaker of the decaying Victorian mansion called the American conservative movement — floating plans to tear it down and build anew but mostly ...