To win in 2024, Biden and Trump must fight for our hearts

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Ronald Reagan's presidency was the symbolic zenith of this new confidence in unleashing entrepreneurship, though just as Republicans like Dwight Eisenhower and Nixon testified to the epoch-defining influence of the New Deal mentality, Democrats like Bill Clinton would demonstrate, however reluctantly, the power of the new Reaganite dispensation.
60% : "The truth is government expanded even as deregulation continued, but public confidence in federal expertise declined relative to faith in the possibilities of the "new economy," represented above all by the telecommunications industry and the Internet.
58% : The era of faith in federal competence thus gave way to an era of hope for a private-sector competence that would be unleashed if only government got out of the way.
55% : The result was the Tea Party -- and Trump.
52% : Trump is more spry than Biden and may still personify his party's ongoing evolution.
35% : This new philosophy of government backfired spectacularly when instead of restoring faith in expert government, it exposed how incestuous the relationship between corporate America, both parties and higher education had become.
31% : But the "lawfare" that mostly blue-state and blue-city prosecutors have been waging against Trump will continue if he wins, and the same media that hyped conspiracy theories about Russian collusion in his first term won't be more fair the second time.
20% : "Barack Obama imagined much the same: Obamacare, after all, was about government creating rules for private insurance companies and their customers (who were, of course, forced to buy their products on pain of government-imposed penalties).
14% : Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Donald Trump, for all their differences, each sensed that empathy, not expertise, would be the key to victory.
9% : No one expects President Biden to earn a mandate even if he wins re-election -- it won't be a victory for Biden so much as a defeat for Donald Trump.
3% : But what if Trump defeats Biden?In a nonconsecutive second term, Trump will be as old as Biden is now, and he too would likely find the next midterms devastating.

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