How Trump wins (and Harris and the Democrats blow it) | David Brooks

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Trump being victorious in 2024 comes down to these five turbines of Trumpism: People like the red model more than the blue model.
51% : And yet this is the pattern with Trump.
44% : Her basic message was: You should support me because I'll give you benefits -- child care subsidies, mortgage subsidies, student loan debt forgiveness, etc.
31% : Trump sent out more than $800 billion in checks during the pandemic and derived no political benefit from it.
30% : This mistake could have been fatal for the Republicans, because Trump is the 46% man.
23% : Trump had several fundamental issues that drove support to him, no matter how jerkish he could be.
14% : In 2016, Clinton led in Pennsylvania at summer's end by about 6 points, while in 2020 Biden led by between roughly 3 and 4 points, but Trump still beat Clinton there and came within a point of beating Biden.
5% : Both Clinton and Obama took tough stances to show that they were not Blue Bubble natives: the crime bill, welfare reform, Obama's stances on illegal immigration, same-sex marriage and fossil fuels.

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