Trump allied Republicans are changing the GOP's approach to labor, free markets and regulation

• Conservative economic thinkers have now had eight years to construct an intellectual and policy framework around Trump's instinctive economic populist message. 
• What they have come up with is a set of worker-first, anti-corporate elite policy proposals, ncreasingly popular within the party, and in Trump's economic circles. 
• They argue that the Reaganite low-tax, low-regulation, free-market ideology has not worked out very well for American workers, but it has worked out enormously well for corporate elites. 

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

Please check back Wednesday for Part Two, on the key figures who are leading this broad shift in how conservatives approach labor, free markets and regulation.

WASHINGTON — The first Trump presidency shattered conservative economic ideology on the Republican Party's approach to free markets and tariffs. 

A second Trump presidency could shatter it on everything else in economic policy. 

That's because the 2024 presidential election is playing out across a dramatically different economic and political landscape than previous Trump campaigns. 

Conservative economic thinkers have now had at least eight years to construct an intellectual and policy framework around Trump's instinctive economic populist message. 

What they have come up with is a set of worker-first, anti-corporate elite policy proposals, which are increasingly popular within the party, and in Trump's economic circles. 

Taken together, the plans amount to a vastly different approach to the economy than the Reaganomic tax, regulatory and trade consensus that dominated the