Is Trump a Populist?

It's been scarcely three weeks, and Donald Trump's professions that he is a populist dissenting from Republican orthodoxy have already blown up. (Here I focus on domestic affairs, but a parallel story can be told about foreign policy, as Trump follows in George Bush's footsteps, moving from non-interventionism to neocon posturing.)

• After promising to make a great deal with pharmaceutical companies to reduce the prices of prescription drugs paid for by Medicare, he has done a 180 degree turn, committing his administration to deregulation of the industry;