President Trump's big victory Tuesday is an emphatic statement by the American people that they demand an end to business as usual in Washington.

The new Republican Senate majority now has a historic opportunity to continue the transformation of the Republican Party from establishment politics to effective advocacy for the people, or we might say, the common good. Doing so can establish the Republican Party as the majority party for a generation.

A growing number of Republican senators see this opportunity. Yet it appears that a majority may not. On trade, immigration, spending and foreign wars, the people have been right and the establishment wrong. No one should lead the Senate Republicans who will not be an articulate and honest advocate for the basic Trump agenda: tariffs to protect manufacturing from unfair trade, ending illegal immigration and opposition to unrealistic U.S. participation in foreign conflicts. It would be a disaster if this new GOP majority would fail to unite in passionate advocacy for the agenda that was ratified by the recent election.

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