Since President Donald Trump began his march to the top of the Republican Party a decade ago, his backers have offered one simple reason for their support: because he fights.

A hallmark of the New Right , the slice of the conservative movement most fervently in Trump’s corner , is the aggressive use of political power to benefit friends and punish foes.

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That’s how the Left has always done things, they argue, despite wrapping themselves in the flag of nonpartisan good government.

For that reason, they are not worried that the new Republican push on

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