Trump is the wrong man for the right job

On the dashed hopes of the Trump intellectuals

President Trump.
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President Trump's administration isn't even fully staffed yet, but after seven bizarre and (mostly) forgettable months it's already finished.

This is not a snarky premature conclusion courtesy of a paid-up member of the lamestream media like yours truly. It is the assessment of Trump's own erstwhile chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, who recently told The Weekly Standard that "the Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over." It is also the conclusion of Julius Krein, the founder and editor-in-chief of American Affairs, a quarterly magazine dedicated to promulgating an intellectual version of post-liberal Trumpian conservatism.

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Matthew Walther

Matthew Walther is a national correspondent at The Week. His work has also appeared in First Things, The Spectator of London, The Catholic Herald, National Review, and other publications. He is currently writing a biography of the Rev. Montague Summers. He is also a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow.