The convergence of Republican President Donald Trump with, of all people, New York’s Incumbent Democratic Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani in recent weeks is the kind of head-scratching event that might send adherents of political conventional wisdom spiraling . The two men could not have less in common. Or do they?

If there is anything this bizarre exercise of mutual puffery shows, it is that the United States is currently in an era of resurgent populism. In the last Trump decade, Republicans have largely settled into whatever definition of populism that the president has offered up, which has mostly been rhetorical even as he has largely governed according to well-worn conservative ideals of lower taxes for the wealthy and corporations and supply-side incentives. Mamdani sailed to vi

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