This is a good, brisk read. In it, the author makes the case that the reality behind Trump's artifice is perhaps what Trump believes Fiorello LaGuardia would have done as President. He identifies the ways in which the culture of the GOP would have to change to accomodate this new vision.
You can come to your own conclusions as to whether the GOP can become a workerist party. American Conservatism was forged as basically a sort of cultural anticommunism. It reached it's zenith in 1979 and hasn't produced an original thought since. The 20th century has a strong grip on the GOP, which has proceded unreconciled to the fact that the west long ago emerged victorius from the Cold War. Their devotion to Christian voting blocks is premised on Soviet state-enforced atheism and continues on as a narrative about the US left. Their devotion to deregulation, global trade, the finance sector, etc., is gripped upon as if their interests were imperiled by the Democratic party when in fact the Democrat party has been captured by these interests. The conservatarian sneers at things like public transportation and forebodes that class-collaborationist public-private coordination toward national greatness are, along with liking dogs and being vegan, are capital-H Hitler stuff.
Progressives are, at the moment, gripped in their own ideological illusions, but this is their time for that. The Republican party is now the one with all the chips. It is entirely up to them to correctly read the message tied to the brick that the people of these United States just threw through Washington DC's window. And there's every reason to lack faith that they will.
It's also possible that Trump is not Fiorello LaGuardia and in fact is Hitler. We don't know. We won't know for at least six months. We just have to hope.
