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The Test in 2024 for the New American Right

Was ‘Trumpism’ a flash in the pan based around a larger-than-life personality, or was it a substantive wake-up call for the GOP to ditch its outmoded bromides and sober up on trade, immigration, and foreign policy?

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President Trump announces a third run for the White House as he speaks at Mar-a-Lago at Palm Beach, Florida, November 15, 2022. AP/Rebecca Blackwell
JOSH HAMMER
JOSH HAMMER

After President Trump formally launched his 2024 presidential run in November, a favorite parlor game of the chattering class has been to guess the identity of his first formally announced challenger for the Republican nomination. This week answered that question: Ambassador Nikki Haley. 

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JOSH HAMMER
JOSH HAMMER

Mr. Hammer is opinion editor of Newsweek, a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation, counsel and policy advisor for the Internet Accountability Project, a syndicated columnist through Creators and a contributing editor for Anchoring Truths. A frequent pundit and essayist on political, legal and cultural issues, he is a constitutional attorney by training.

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