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415 --> <p>Also true, and not trivial: During the campaign, some Nevertrump conservatives had an annoying tendency to use “Reaganâ€â€”meaning what they imagined the 40th president would think and do today—as a rhetorical device to portray Trump’s supporters as apostates from conservatism.</p> <p>Some are still at it. One of them is Evan McMullin, the former CIA officer and congressional aide who ran as a “true conservative†independent, receiving 0.4% of the nationwide popular vote and topping 20% in his native Utah. In response to the Moore report, he <a class="icon none" href="https://twitter.com/Evan_McMullin/status/801634576389066756" target="_blank">tweeted</a>: “For conservatives who didn’t see this coming, it should be a wake up call. Trump is going to expand the size of the Federal Government.â€</p><div class="wsj-body-ad-placement" id="unruly"><div class="wsj-body-ad "><div class="wsj-responsive-ad-wrap wsj-ad-article-body" id="wsj-body-AD_G3" data-tracking="interactive.wsj.com/opinion_bestwebtoday" data-ad-options='{"adId":"AD_G","adUnitPath":"/2/interactive.wsj.com/opinion_bestwebtoday","adSize":[[2,2]],"adSizeMap":null,"autoRefresh":false,"adTargeting":{"metazone":null,"msrc":null,"circ":"snippet_free_pass","bkuuid":"tt1lxx9999yzkgju","p39":null},"disableRefresh":false}'></div></div></div> <p>Then again, so did Reagan—or, to be precise, so did Congress during his presidency, usually with Reagan’s assent.</p> <p>McMullin has gone in some strange directions since the election. In a <a class="icon none" href="http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/307367-euphemistic-alt-right-risks-turning-party-of-lincoln" target="_blank">Wednesday op-ed</a> for the Hill, he opines: “Repudiating and eradicating opponents of equality in America should be a primary duty of all of our leaders, conservative and liberal alike.â€</p> <p>He’s referring specifically to “around 250 white supremacists†who celebrated Trump’s victory at a Washington powwow Saturday. Repudiating white supremacists (or white nationalists, as they would call themselves), as Trump himself did in an interview with the <a class="icon none" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/us/politics/trump-new-york-times-interview-transcript.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a>, is an entirely reasonable thing to do. Our preference would be to ignore them, but the liberal media are intent on giving them attention, so repudiation it is.</p> <p>But really, “eradicating opponents of equalityâ€? What kind of communism is that? Among the left Reagan had a reputation as a war monger, but it was undeserved. He did not, as we recall, go in for eradicating people.</p> <p>All that said, it seems to us it was likewise unwise for Moore to set up an opposition between Trump and Reagan, whose memory many Republicans revere. Better to stress their similarities and seek common ground between Reaganite conservatism and Trump’s populism.</p> <p>That is the approach of McMullin’s fellow Utahn Sen. <a class="icon none" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442450/donald-trump-conservatives-principled-populism-framework-working-together" target="_blank">Mike Lee</a>, who in a piece for National Review urges conservatives to “embrace principled populismâ€:</p> <blockquote>At our best, conservatives craft policy reforms that empower bottom-up, trial-and-error problem-solving and the institutions that facilitate it, such as markets and civil society. At our worst, though, we can seem indifferent to suffering and injustice because we overlook problems that require our action or resign ourselves to their insolvability.</blockquote> <blockquote>Populists, on the other hand, have an uncanny knack for identifying social problems. It’s when pressed for solutions that populists tend to reveal their characteristic weakness. Unable to draw on a coherent philosophy, populists can tend toward inconsistent or unserious proposals.</blockquote> <blockquote>The rough terms of a successful partnership seem obvious. Populism identifies the problems; conservatism develops the solutions; and President Trump oversees the process with a veto pen that keeps everyone honest. </blockquote> <p>Lee—whose late father, Rex, served as Reagan’s solicitor general—was anything but a Trump supporter. In the primaries he <a class="icon none" href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/cruz-to-land-first-senate-endorsement-in-mike-lee-220574" target="_blank">endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz</a>, who easily won the Utah caucuses. In June Lee delivered what <a class="icon none" href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/mike-lee-trump-rant-224970" target="_blank">Politico</a> called an “epic rant†against Trump in an interview with NewsMax. He never endorsed Trump, and <a class="icon none" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10/08/sen-mike-lee-urges-trump-to-quit-as-utah-republicans-flee-from-their-presidential-nominee/" target="_blank">last month</a>, after the infamous “Access Hollywood†video became public, he urged the nominee to “step aside†and “allow someone else to carry the banner of these principles.â€</p> <p>None of which deterred Trump from including Lee on his <a class="icon none" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10/08/sen-mike-lee-urges-trump-to-quit-as-utah-republicans-flee-from-their-presidential-nominee/" target="_blank">list of potential Supreme Court nominees</a>. Lee “swiftly shot down the idea that he would accept a nomination,†<a class="icon none" href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/mike-lee-no-trump-supreme-court-228573" target="_blank">Politico</a> reported in September. 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Apologies Followed.â€â€”headline, <a class="icon none" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/23/black-u-k-beauty-magazine-accidentally-put-a-white-model-on-its-cover-apologies-followed/" target="_blank">Washington Post</a> website, Nov. 23</li> <li>“Book Publishers Scramble to Make Sense of Trump’s Rise to Victoryâ€â€”headline, <a class="icon none" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/business/media/book-publishers-scramble-to-make-sense-of-trumps-rise-to-victory.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a>, Nov. 22</li> <li>“Harvard Might Be on Outside Looking In With Trumpâ€â€”headline, <a class="icon none" href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/11/24/harvard-might-outside-looking-when-trump-takes-office/lQIt63yFkSWNQ5W8FiXzPJ/story.html" target="_blank">Boston Globe</a>, Nov. 25</li> </ul> <p> <strong>Problem and Solution</strong> </p> <ul class="articleList"> <li>“Lawmakers Vote to Freeze Turkey EU Accession Talksâ€â€”headline, <a class="icon none" href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/24/europe/european-parliament-turkey-accession-talks/" target="_blank">CNN.com</a>, Nov. 24</li> <li>“Don’t deep fry a frozen turkey, U.S. officials warnâ€â€”tweet, <a class="icon none" href="https://twitter.com/ReutersWorld/status/801385877956083712" target="_blank">@ReutersWorld</a>, Nov. 23</li> </ul> <p> <strong>Make That 24</strong> </p> <ul class="articleList"> <li>“23 Best W.C. 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