With his “great and beautiful law,” Trump makes the Republican project triumph
No, Donald Trump is not the heterodox populist we think he is. He is even striving to make the dreams of the most conservative Republicans come true, as evidenced by his major budget bill, which was just passed by Congress, this columnist for the New York Times points out.
Perhaps the fact that Donald Trump is a member of the Republican Party is too often underestimated. Of course, everyone knows that Donald Trump is, but this characteristic is often dismissed as a minor detail of his political trajectory. He is a Republican, yes, but not in the same way as Mike Johnson or John Thune, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Republican Senate Majority Leader, respectively. As nearly every political pundit has noted over the past decade, Trump is unique (he even “crosses the line,” according to his critics) in ways that challenge traditional categories.
Yet, it can be argued that Donald Trump's most salient characteristic is that he is a Republican leader determined to ensure the triumph of his party and his ideology. In this sense, he is little more than an executor of the political agenda of the most conservative Republicans, ready to sign laws or executive orders that they want to put on his desk.
This was already glaring when the 2017 tax reform was passed during his first term. This law drastically lowered taxes on high incomes, which benefited Americans.
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