Having watched Trump consistently accede to the party and the establishment he once threatened to remake—on trade, China, building a wall along the US-Mexico border, infrastructure, entitlements, and a host of other matters—and having seen the Republican Party, despite its control of all three elected branches of the federal government, consistently fail—at least thus far—to advance its agenda with regard to healthcare, taxes, and spending, I believe that my original claim about the weakness and incoherence of the conservative movement still holds.1
