Meet the leaders of the Trump era's new conservative economic populism

• A new movement of conservative, economic populism is gaining ground in Washington among people close to former President Donald Trump.
• On Capitol Hill, it is being led by a small set of young, ambitious Republican senators: J.D. Vance (Ohio), Marco Rubio (Fla.), Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Tom Cotton (Ark.). 
• Beyond politics, the new approach to economic policy finds common ground with several Biden administration policies.
• A leading voice of the movement, Sohrab Ahmari, calls himself a "Kahn-servative", a tribute to Lina Kahn, Biden's Federal Trade Commission chair and an aggressive antitrust regulator.

This reported column is Part Two of Eamon Javers' two-part series on the new, conservative economic populism gaining ground among Republicans close to former President Donald Trump.

In Part One, Javers introduces readers to the new, conservative economic populism gaining ground among Republicans close to former President Donald Trump. Click here to read Part One.

WASHINGTON — The effort underway to define a new, conservative economic policy for the age of Trump is driven in part by a changing understanding of who conservatives are – and what kind of policy they actually care about. 

Leading this change is a cadre of economic populists who reject the political bargain that created the modern Republican party in America: The marriage of conservative social policy that appeals to rural and evangelical voters with low tax, laissez-faire economic policy beloved by corporate boardrooms. 

As it gains steam, this effort has the potential to reshape both the GOP and U.S. electoral politics for a generation – but only if it is successful. 

For Sohrab Ahmari, a former Wall Street Journal writer, the goal of neopopulist economics