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I'm Jonathan Kay.

The American election is over.

Even Senate leader Mitch McConnell has now congratulated Joe Biden for winning the presidency.

But the lessons from the Trump era are still being hotly debated, on both sides of the aisle.

This week I spoke with Orrin Cass, the executive director of American Compass, a newly created

Washington-based group that seeks to remind conservatives that conservatism goes beyond free markets

and corporate deregulation. A former policy architect for both

Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio, Cass argues for a reborn conservative movement that

emphasizes the importance of family, community, and hold on to your seats, labor unions.

And he believes that in the aftermath of Trump's exit from the White House, an opportunity

has emerged for Republicans to seize on this new coalition of middle and a working class

interests. Orrin Cass is the author of the much talked about book, the once and

future worker, and a contributor to the New York Times. On whose pages he's argued that we spend too much

money pushing everyone to go to college instead of ensuring opportunities for

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