"James Michael Curley, a four-time mayor of Boston, used wasteful redistribu- tion to his poor Irish constituents and incendiary rhetoric to encourage richer citizens to emigrate from Boston, thereby shaping the electorate in his favor. As a consequence, Boston stagnated, but Curley kept winning elections. We present a model of using redistributive politics to shape the electorate, and show that this model yields a number of predictions opposite from the more standard frameworks of political competition, yet consistent with empirical evidence."
Seems to also apply to the strategy of our Golfer in Chief.
The Curley Effect can go either way. Slash welfare and “social services”, and the Dem voters will go elsewhere.
Except its a lot harder to move out of his jurisdiction...