Ross Douthat: Trump knows how to make promises. Do his rivals?

Haley and Pence are offering ideas that are implausible and unpopular.

(Damon Winter | The New York Times) Former President Donald Trump on the final day of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Oxon Hill, Md., March 4, 2023.

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