For nearly three decades, the Republican Party has defined itself by Ronald Reagan's legacy,

a strong military, free trade, lower taxes, and most importantly smaller government.

When businessman Donald Trump won the Republican nomination for president in 2016,

many observers in the press and professional political circles had to ask themselves to the

GOP remain the party of Reagan.

According to this view, Trump's stance on issues such as free trade, he's against a lot

of it, support for the manufacturing sector, and government entitlement programs suggested

a candidate and now president who shares little of the Reagan vision.

But is that actually true?

Interestingly, our next guest argues that Donald Trump's election gives Republicans their best

chance to re-reganize the GOP.

On today's 10 Blocks podcast, we're going to talk with Henry Olson, who's a senior fellow

at the Ethics and Public Policy Center about his new book, The Working Class Republican,

Ronald Reagan, and the Return of Blue-Colour Conservatism.

It's published by Broadside Books.

He joins us after this.

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