Political historians tend to think of the post–World War II Republican Party as going through three distinct phases. There was the pre-Reagan GOP (1945–80), when both major parties were still loose regional and ethnic coalitions with liberal and conservative wings and before they began sorting themselves out ideologically after the civil-rights era. There was the Reagan GOP (1980–2016), characterized by a growing conservative orthodoxy that included limited domestic government paired with free-market economics, religion-based values traditionalism, and a globally aggressive and expensive national-security apparatus. And now we have the post-Reagan “populist” GOP being shaped by Donald Trump . The conquest of the Republican Party by conservatives and then of conservatism by Trump’s MAGA m

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