Ahead of unprecedented election, looking for lessons in America's past - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : This election also will affect the futures of the combatants in the Middle East, where American aid is a powerful, possibly decisive, element; in Ukraine, where future shipments of American weapons are at stake; in Russia and North Korea, where the unusual personal relationships leaders have with Trump are a factor that is unpredictable but unavoidable; and in China, which is both a vital trading partner and a possible military foe.
41% : The independent candidate, former governor George C. Wallace of Alabama, whose angry, populist appeal in some ways was a precursor to Trump's, carried five states in an election whose outcome was uncertain on Election Day and that Nixon won with a majority of less than a single percentage point.
35% : "The theory is that if Trump gets in again, he will understand the levers of power better and will be able to do unimaginable things.
34% : We have a pretty good idea what Trump would do, though Harris has been obscure about what she would do.
32% : "Populists of the right or left bring a significant number of issues into the mainstream, the way Trump has.
28% : Nixon was a divisive figure, like Trump, loathed by his opponents but warily respected by many for his political canniness, inexhaustible ambition, and personal force.

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