One of the more interesting, depressing, and still-unresolved questions about the Republican Party in the era of Donald Trump is whether the limited-government philosophy that seemed to animate the Tea Party’s ascendance in 2009-2010 is still an active thing. The question has implications for all kinds of policy questions-from the health care debate, where the Senate’s Tea Party caucus currently form the hinge-point on which the legislation balances, to forthcoming debates on taxes, budgets, debt ceilings, surveillance, Russian investigations, and more.
Does Donald Trump Have Anything to Do With Constitutional Conservatism?
