Joshua Green: “This speaks to the central tension of Trump’s second presidency: whether he can satisfy his cohort of billionaire backers and Wall Street allies while also delivering for the multiracial working-class voters who put him back in the White House.”
“Those voters could easily turn on Republicans if Trump’s plutocratic populism doesn’t do a better job of improving their lives than Joe Biden and Kamala Harris did.”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.