Bret Stephens: “By no means Trumpers additionally overstated our case and, in doing so, defeated our objective.”
“We warned that Trump could be a reckless president who would possibly stumble into World Struggle III. If something, his overseas coverage in his first time period was, in follow, usually cautious to a fault. We hyperventilated about his odd chumminess with Vladimir Putin. However the collusion allegations had been a smear, and Trump’s Russia coverage — whether or not it was his opposition to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline or his covert help to Ukraine — was a lot harder than both Barack Obama’s or (no less than till Russia invaded Ukraine) President Biden’s.”
“We predicted that Trump’s rhetoric would wreck the Republican Celebration’s probabilities to win over the constituencies the social gathering had recognized, after 2012, as key to its future. However we missed that his working-class attraction would additionally attain working-class minorities — just like the 48 % of Latino male voters who solid their ballots for him final month. And we had been alarmed by Trump’s protectionism and big-spending methods. However the financial system largely thrived below him, no less than till the pandemic.”
