Well, there's definitely a confluence of political and economic factors here.

I think there's a recognition that the economy really has been leaving large groups of Americans

behind, and particularly those who are typically described as working class, folks with less

than a college degree.

A big policy fight is brewing on the right, and this time the fight is not all about Trump.

Some of the most conservative Republicans are pushing the government to get more,

rather than less involved in national economic policy. Doesn't sound very Republican, does it?

To say that we are going to combine the more basic socially conservative outlook of the right of

center that rejects a lot of the more radically progressive items that the left of center has

at the top of its agenda right now.

The emergence of this new economic counterculture, some might call it,

is loosely connected to a two-year-old think tank, American compass, run by war and cast.

But I would say we're more somewhere in between a publication and a think tank.

Either self-styled, common good capitalist.

Partly, I do just like arguing.

And he wants to convince other Republicans to run with a different economic message.

But I think there's a substantive point here, and it goes to what I was sort of describing as our

goal.

And some lawmakers are actually getting on board.

Well, I think it's tremendously popular policy platform, like Marco Rubio.

Welcome to Playbook Deep Dive. I'm Tara Palmerry.

You know, my preferred term for the work we're doing at American Compass is just conservatism.

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