In 2015, when Donald Trump entered the presidential fray, the Heritage Foundation critiqued him for favoring “Big Government” and not being nearly conservative enough. The D.C.-based think tank all but endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz in the primaries, and came out strongly against Trump’s tariff proposals. A year later, however, it was serving as something of a gatekeeper for the Trump administration: in…
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