In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here.Perhaps the most interesting and consequential political debates are happening among conservatives. Self-proclaimed Reaganite Republicans angrily reject Trump’s tariffs, while younger New Right conservatives wonder if Trump’s foreign policy has been hijacked by neoconservatives. The MAHA movement loves Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., while many in the pro-life community feel abandoned. What once seemed to be a unified movement now looks to be on the verge of a crackup.An outsider might be forgiven for thinking this is unhealthy or perhaps fatal to Trump’s new majority. In fact, it is simply a sign that the new coalition Trump created is going through some challenging but necessary growing pains. This new coalition, like the one Ronald Reagan formed in the 1970s and 1980s, is made up of an old guard and a set of new arrivals with whom it is inevitably in tension as they figure out how to coexist. Like that earlier incarnation, the new conservative coalition can only thrive if it understands that compromise and policy innovation, not doctrinal purity and policy dogma, is the price of, and the path to, victory. One might call it the “new fusionism.”