Donald Trump kicks off his re-election campaign in Orlando tonight. Get ready for Billionaire Populist II: The Sequel, Taibbi warns
” stump theme helped Hillary win Pennsylvania and nearly turn things around against Barack Obama.
In 2015-2016, Trump’s prescriptions for change often involved pledges to get on the phone and alter history with the force of his Trumpiness. The Ford motor company planning to move a plant to Mexico? “I wouldn’t let it happen,” candidate Trump promised. Years later, we know how a lot of this turned out. He didn’t raise taxes on the rich, but did the opposite, giving them a historic tax break . Soon after election, he put a slew of the same Goldman execs he railed against as a candidate in his White House. As a result you’ll see a lot of quotes like one from former Obama official Karine Jean-Pierre, who said voters “just won’t buy” Trump as an outsider going forward.
Those numbers don’t sound all that great for Trump, until one considers that voters last time consistently said they supported change even if they didn’t know what the change in question would be. Trump, just by being Trump, has a path to winning the “change agent” mantle in any theoretical general election matchup.
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