When it comes to positioning himself between Trump and the non-Trump establishment, write smotus and julia_azari, Pence might just be stuck.
Pence is trying to revive it. The tricky thing, obviously, about trying to revive a bygone era is that the context has shifted. Reagan’s ideas and coalition didn’t emerge in a vacuum; they happened in response to the economic struggles of the 1970s, the shifting cultural terrain, backlashes to the civil rights and anti-poverty movements of the 1960s and the Cold War. The economic, cultural and global situations are very different now.
To make a convincing case for a return to Reaganism, Pence needs to explain how its tenets are still relevant more than four decades later. Most other Republican candidates today seem to elide this distinction between the Reagan and Trump factions within the party. Few explicitly challenge Trump’s place in the party, with most instead acting as though their campaign only has a real chance at victory if Trump is somehow removed from the campaign by other forces. Trump’s most direct competitor, Ron DeSantis, has campaigned on a vision that is largely Trump’s agitations against “wokeness” and “the left” turned up to 11.
To make a convincing case for a return to Reaganism, Pence needs to explain how its tenets are still relevant more than four decades later. When we look at different parts of the Republican coalition, there’s actually a case for where Pence’s views might match some important groups better than Trump’s do: he’s much more conservative on abortion, saying that “we must not rest” until abortion is outlawed in every state.
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