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Who holds the power now? The new think-tanks whispering in Trump’s ear
Economic nationalists and populists are sidelining conservative stalwarts and reshaping Republican policy.
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US President-elect Donald Trump at the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) gala in Florida on Nov 14. The AFPI is a newbie among policy shops.
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WASHINGTON – The traditional conservative think-tanks that have shaped the contours of Republican administrations are being elbowed out in plain sight by a new breed of policy shops that are more closely aligned with Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda.
The old guard were neoconservatives and free market devotees, espousing principles such as small government and fiscal prudence, and staffed by scholarly analysts who maintained a formal distance from the Republican Party.
