Trump Shows Demography Isn’t Destiny

He famously dethroned the Republican establishment in 2016 and now has crushed its theory of how to forge a GOP future in an increasingly diverse country.

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Republican presidential nominee and former president Donald Trump walks at a campaign rally at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pa., November 4, 2024.

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It turns out that everyone underestimated how a proposal for mass deportations could bring Americans together.

Donald Trump assembled the biggest, most diverse GOP coalition in decades while running further to the right on immigration, crime, and the culture than perhaps any major-party presidential candidate in U.S. history.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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