How Harris wins (and Trump and the Republicans blow it) | Ross Douthat

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Since 2015, the remarkable resilience of Trump has depended on making himself an avatar for these varied discontents -- a symbol of rebuke and rebellion, and a natural leader for a coalition of alienated and disappointed outsiders, plus a few disillusioned insiders as well.
50% : Suddenly, it was a problem that Trump's path to victory depended on both anti-woke secular voters and anti-abortion evangelicals, on conservatism-curious minority voters and aggrieved blue-collar whites, on mainstream business elites as well as the likes of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on traditional movement conservatives and moderates who had no interest in the policies favored by the Heritage Foundation.
45% : Her convention speech was especially Kondo-ist: short, sparse and nonspecific about virtually everything except restoring Roe v. Wade, protecting middle-class entitlements and keeping Trump out of the Oval Office.
43% : When Trump was riding high in the early summer of 2024, his outsider coalition seemed to be adding members at a rapid clip -- picking up young men and recent immigrants and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, none of whom had necessarily embraced a consistent right-wing agenda, but all of whom were looking for a countervailing force against Democratic orthodoxy.
35% : If there was a synthesis that would satisfy all these varying constituencies, Trump was not the man to find it.

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