Jeremy Boreing

He's not a particularly moral leader for the party, which after a decade has started to show itself in the conduct of the Republican Party and the conservative movement generally.

He's not a particularly ideological leader of the movement, which after a decade has started to show fractures in the movement because we've been bereft of ideological leadership.

And so you see this sort of fracturing as everybody tries to vie to define what the ideological future of the movement is going to be.

But a lot of the things that we were concerned about didn't happen.

As a man seeking the Republican nomination for president of the United States, he said that if he won the presidency, he would appoint his sister to the Supreme Court and that we would get a European-style single-payer health care system.

So was I wrong to think that maybe Donald Trump would govern as a Democrat?

He was saying in those days that he would govern in many ways as a Democrat.

It was unclear which way Donald Trump would break on a lot of things.

I think that in part because Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi didn't make deals with him because they were more interested in seeing their party come back to power than in actually trying to advance aspects of their agenda.

They targeted Trump instantly and attacked him in ways that no president in modern history had been attacked.

And Donald Trump's a counterpuncher.

And so in a way, Schumer and Pelosi perhaps forced him much further to the right than he might have ordinarily found himself.

I mean, he'd been a Democrat and a supporter of Democrats for a long time.

But whatever the result, we were obviously wrong about some of the things that we were concerned about about Donald Trump.

And so as the years went by.

The Democrats weren't in power.

Even if all Trump did was nothing, that's four years of the Democrats not advancing their agenda.

That's huge.

He didn't do nothing.

He gave us the most conservative Supreme Court probably in the history of the country.