The Conservative Populist Movement Is Moving Beyond Trump

‘At some point, it stopped being about the voters, and it started being about his own personal grievances,’ one analyst contends.

AP/Mary Altaffer
Trump supporters wave flags as they wait in line outside a political rally at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. AP/Mary Altaffer

NEW ALEXANDRIA, Pennsylvania — Ever since President Trump lost to President Biden in 2020, there has been a flag hanging from a home not far from where I live that reads “Trump 2024” — one of the thousands I have seen across the country in the past two years. But yesterday, when I drove past this home, that sign was gone.

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