But Trump has to work on getting the votes of the college-educated middle to upper middle class who fancy themselves elites and look down on those without a college degree. He has to convince them the elites look down their noses at them and always will. Campaign ads featuring Nancy going to the beauty parlor without a mask and the like will help.
Aren’t those the votes that McCain and Romney got?
If you’re one of those people who don’t live in coastal cities...
I live in a coastal city and the rest of my family does..all college educated and all voting for Trump.
It’s the blanket statement equivalent of saying all flyover folks are illiterate and all southern folks are illiterate rednecks.
Nice to see Prof. Codevilla’s very accurate and descriptive terms being used.
Trauma mining to score points in a debate is a desperately cynical piece of political theatre. But, I suppose they calculate that if it works you get to be president. (I’ll pass, thanks.) It was pure Biden: scripted, saccharine, playing by the rules of a game that has long since ended. In case you think I’m too cynical, that surely this couldn’t have been orchestrated, Joe Biden’s official Twitter account posted a photo of Joe and Beau with the caption, “Beau was not a loser” just as the debate ended.
And just so, Trump. He looked at his podium and quietly, respectfully, asked, which son Biden was talking about. Of course, he knew, but he played the game forcing Biden to respond, Beau. “Oh, I don’t know him. I know Hunter.”
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Nice parry by Pres. Trump to Biden’s attack. Trump pivot’s from Biden’s sanctimonious diatribe about his dead son and flips the topic to be about Hunter Biden and all the current corruption that entails.
"That won him the election in 2016. It won him the debate last night. And it [WILL] get him re-elected in November."
Fixed! :)
I think he is appealing to that group, because of his tax cuts. They are either benefiting right now or Envision in the future when they have high salaries that they want to keep most of their money.
Last night Biden abandoned his base on several issues.
Trump remained faithful to his base in all things.
Aside from the ethics of it, it’s good electoral strategy.
Never, ever walk away from your base. Without them, the middle is unreachable.
start making the ads. Trump needs volunteers to take this home!
>But Trump has to
Not sure about that. I know exactly the people you mean; ‘woke’ AF despite the fact that the Top People abuse them, crush their wages with H1Bs, and dangle a carrot to grind out more for nothing.
I don’t think the ROI’s there to pursue them. They want all the security of the cradle-to-grave socialist state, and the only way to shock them into awareness would involve damaging many more things. Or, conversely, making America great also helps them even if they hardly know it and resent it to boot.
Nice article - thanks.
What hasn’t been examined is Biden’s conduct during his term as VP and his reaction when Obama used the Bully Pulpit to create racial division during the Zimmerman trial.
When as a result of Obama’s inflammatory racist comments suggesting a racist murder. Where Obama’s remarks were interpreted by black gangs suggesting retribution for a racial incident went on attacking non blacks innocently entering “hoods” and attacking and sometimes killing them like the Australian from Melbourne; Christopher Lane, here on a college scholarship in Duncan Oklahoma who was murdered while exercising on one of Duncan’s streets.