The “pro-worker” conservatism of figures like Oren Cass and his American Compass think tank offers narrowly targeted measures to select workers while terrorizing immigrants and maintaining management’s control over the workplace and politics.

What does it look like when the Right attempts to articulate its own version of a “pro-worker” program? That is the question driving the American Compass think tank. Founded during the last year of Donald Trump’s first term in the White House, American Compass has spent the last five years puzzling through what it would take to “exit right from neoliberalism” (a question that animated Trump’s return to Washington, DC, four years later). Led by Oren Cass, a former management consultant and policy director for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign,

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