Rob Tracinski talks with Washington Post columnist George F. Will about the rising statism of the right. The conversation includes: how he became more "libertarian," the "loaded pistol" of populism and the virtues of elitism, the paradox of American conservatism, the substance of Donald Trump's style, the "most important election in the history of the planet," and a self-declared pessimist's case for optimism.

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