Has Donald Trump brought the conservative era to an end, or has he exposed something deeper about what conservatism has been for the past eighty years?

Dan McCarthy responds to a recent argument that Trump marks a break with the Reagan, Buckley, and Goldwater tradition. Instead, Dan argues that much of modern conservatism lived in the shadow of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, defined more by opposition than by a full vision of conservative.

This episode explores how the New Deal reshaped American government, foreign policy, and the administrative state, and why Trump’s presidency challenges not just the welfare state, but the broader legacy of Roosevelt era liberalism. Is this the end of conservatism, or the beginning of something older and wider?

For an in-depth read on the topic, check out Dan's article:
https://tomklingenstein.com/the-first-republican-since-fdr/

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