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Donald Trump exposed a split within the the Republican Party that precious few people seemed to know was there.  A small, but noisy faction led by most of the Party's intellectuals seems to have become unmoored from their own American roots.  They identify more with an amorphous conservative ideology than with American conservatism - a philosophy of government that links timeless principles to the this particular people and this particular place and seeks the best form of government in reality rather than a fanciful city in speech, to use Plato's phrase.