“How many of you would consider yourselves fiscally more conservative but socially more liberal?”
As I travel around the country speaking to groups of business executives about public opinion and U.S. politics, I often pose that question to the audience. People look around the room, nodding approvingly, feeling validated that their worldview is shared by so many of their peers. Then I deliver the bad news. They are very much alone. And the United States already got the most viable version of a third-party candidate: He just happened to run as a Republican. His name is Donald Trump. CONT.
Kristen Soltis Anderson (Echelon Insights), Washington Post