Doesn’t take a genius to promise insurance for everyone.. it takes a liberal progressive.
A promise that everyone can buy affordable insurance which can be tailored to your needs is not liberal or progressive.
I don’t think Trump himself is pure conservative or pure progressive. I think he’s hard as nails about matters of national security, and that’s what he thinks people in the middle want. They want our borders secured and our sovereignty respected. I think he also believes that American citizens should have a social welfare security net, within reason. That’s what he thinks people in the middle want. The establishment in both parties is not exactly happy with it, and have always tried to delegitimize populists. He doesn’t give a rat’s behind about think tanks. He’s doing his own thinking, and he’s trying to find ways to make it work.
(Failed) dogmatic conservatism is on the way out. Pragmatic conservatism is in. Get on board the train.