Mr. Barone is a senior political analyst for The Washington Examiner and a…
Working-class voters see Democrats piling on costs and preventing them from buying things they want. Net zero, indeed.
Trump isn’t the only politician often labeled as a populist who is doing well despite elite scorn.
The shift is pronounced among both Blacks and Hispanics, men and women, college graduates and non-college graduates.
Those who see low-dollar shoplifters as 21st-century Jean Valjeans should realize that theft is not necessarily a nonviolent crime and that low-value theft losses can inflict severe damage on those with modest incomes.
The Buchanans, in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s telling, were ‘careless people’ who ‘smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness’ and ‘let other people clean up the mess they had made.’
One lesson of the 1980 campaign, and of many others, is that voters seek in presidential candidates qualities that they find lacking in the current president.
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