The Republican party is, or was, the party of the middle class, which has for too long been forgotten. The National Review since Wm F Buckley’s passing has become a rag sheet for Republican-flavored globalist elites, who favor boiling the frog slowly, as opposed to the Democrat-flavored globalist elites who favor boiling frogs quickly.
Well, if you haven’t noticed the Democrats and the Republicans, including Trump, have spent the last decade or more trying to nuke the middle class. More taxes aren’t going to help.