Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
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Donald Trump heads into his second term with wind in his sails, enjoying a Republican-held House and Senate and an American populace primed for some major changes in the federal government. In this episode, we talk to Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts about why he sees significant opportunity for Trump and the Republican Party to shift the power back into the hands of the people. I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe, and this is a special edition of Morning Wire.
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Joining us now is Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation and author of a new book calling for what he's labeled the Second American Revolution. First of all, thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. Look, we all just went through a tumultuous election year. Nothing about the election went the way anybody anticipated in terms of the campaigns. It was historic. It was wild. And from the news side, it was very entertaining to cover. We've now made it through and we have a president elect Trump, the 47th president of the U.S., Let's start by focusing actually on the Democrats. What do you believe are the lessons that should have been learned by Democrats this go round? And do you actually think they're going to learn them?
Bottom line is the top lesson Democrats should be talking about right now is that when you govern like radical leftists and attempt to run to the center very late in the campaign, that does not work. Sometimes it works for Democrats to govern on the radical left, but they, over many, a long period of months, will move to the center and it works. In this case, their record prevented that from happening. And the more the vice president tried to present herself as someone in the center, there were two problems that she had. Number one, enough of the American people realized that was a lie. And number two, it actually underscored this persistent concern that they had about her and have about a lot of politicians, especially on the left, which is that they're inauthentic. And so they try to run an inauthentic campaign against whatever you think about Donald Trump, the most authentic man in politics. Right.
And so the lesson that they should be drawing, Democrats should be drawing is either run as radical leftists and convince the American people that they are with you, which they are not. or which is what I would recommend they do, be a center left party, be less ridiculous about abortion, be less ridiculous about the power of the state in our lives, be less ridiculous about basically your whole program. But I'm just telling you now, at least spending the daytime many days in Washington, D.C., those aren't the conversations they're having. And they've actually pushed out very thoughtful folks like Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut. I think I disagree with Senator Murphy on everything, but he had this very thoughtful analysis on X several days ago. And those conversations just are not happening. It's bad for the Democrats, but good for those of us who believe that this commences a generation-long era of conservative policy reform.
Now, looking at the Republican Party, it's different than it was eight years ago. A lot of people discuss and debate about the ideas of principles versus pragmatism. How would you define now writ large the Republican approach to politics, particularly under a Trump administration as he's laying out his vision for it? What is the Republican Party now?
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