Principled Populism

Now is a good moment to resist the centralization of power

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‘It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones,” Calvin Coolidge once said. With a unified federal government soon to be in Republican hands, however, maybe we can do a bit of both.

But how? While congressional Republicans tend to identify as conservatives, President-elect Donald Trump is a populist. Many observers, including some Republicans, see this as an un-squareable circle.

Mike Lee

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Mike Lee

Mike Lee is the senior U.S. senator from Utah.

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