TGI (TPRM): Pres. Donald (T)rump, Vice Pres. Mike (P)ence, House Speaker Paul (R)yan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch (M)cConnell can reverse the 'disastrous politics of the Obama years' and the 'continually growing administrative state.'.

• Author: Fischer, Raymond L.
• Position: Political Landscape - Cover story

LAWYER, professor, and broadcast journalist with a 120-city exposure for his nationally syndicated radio show, Hugh Hewitt has authored more than one dozen books, serves as an analyst for NBC and MSNBC, and participated as a panelist in four primary debates. During Donald Trump's presidential campaign, he interviewed the candidate 15 times. These newsmaking one-on-ones, a longtime knowledge of Washington, D.C., and his service for two Republican presidents give Hewitt a unique perspective from which to predict how Trump and the GOP can "transform the country and earn a lasting place in history."

In The Fourth Way: The Conservative Playbook for a Lasting GOP Majority, Hewitt declares that Pres. Trump, Vice Pres. Mike Pence, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (TPRM) will renounce the "disastrous politics of the Obama years." Moreover, the new Administration will not return to what Hewitt terms the "First Way," Pres. Franklin Roosevelt's "continually growing administrative state" through Richard Nixon's time--or to Ronald Reagan's "Second Way," with decreased communism abroad and tax cuts at home.

With the 1990s came the 'Third Way," defined in the political ideology of Bill Clinton's "New Democrats" and their centrist vision to restructure their party. Eventually, the party transitioned into groups of "entrenched elites" in major centers such as New York, Washington, D.C., Silicon Valley, and Hollywood. With a sense of "superiority, entitlement," and moral supremacy, these "self-congratulating" officials administered from the top down; for instance, they chose Common Core instead of local control of school curricula. They yearned for a world without borders and confused American superiority with "racial or religious supremacy."

In recent years, the power of the "Third Way" gradually diminished. First with GOP success at the polls in 2010, 2012, and 2014; then with Pres. Trump's triumph. Hewitt has confidence Trump has an unarticulated game plan easy for voters to hear, but "singularly difficult for elites to pick up on." The media failed to take candidate Trump seriously, but voters did and, in doing so, they voted for a "Fourth Way."

Hewitt emphasizes the need for TPRM to lose no time in asserting the "Fourth Way," as congressmen need a positive record on which to campaign for reelection before the November 2018 midterms. The Fourth Way prescribes five goals for perfecting that record: increase money for...