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Jeff Flake

The Republican Senator from Arizona on disagreeing with Trump, his new book Conscience of a Conservative and why he’s crashing his own party

You say that conservatives have “lost” their way, being swept up by xenophobia, populism, nationalism. If that’s the case, how does the party right itself? We need to re-embrace those principles that we’ve gone away from: free trade, immigration. It’s not just the policy approach; it’s the demeanor. Conservatism is measured and reliable. Conservative foreign policy is where you

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