The factions jostling for Donald Trump’s favour
We have identified five Republican tribes. This is what they mean for the party
WHAT UNITES the Republican Party today is a near-universal devotion to Donald Trump. But loyalty to the president masks some divisions among Republican voters. Anti-establishment populists jostle with old-school conservatives over tax cuts and welfare. Nationalists cheer the MAGA tariffs that business-minded conservatives loathe. Mr Trump’s success has been to bind these factions together, an achievement his eventual successor might struggle to replicate.
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