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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