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To: JohnM who wrote (303524)	7/1/2016 10:19:28 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541967

From Mike Allen's newsletter. ————————————— UNDERSTANDING TRUMP ... DAVID BROOKS, "The Coming Political Realignment: How Trump is smashing everything": "By putting trade at the top of the conversation he elevates the issue on which Hillary Clinton is the most squirrelly, where her position reinforces the message that she will say anything to get power. ... Trump's only shot of winning ... is to smash and replace the entire structure of the American political debate. For the past 80 years that debate has been about the size of government ... If that debate structures this election, Trump will get somewhere between 38 and 44 percent of the votes ... "Trump's only hope is to change the debate from size of government to open/closed. His only hope is to cast his opponents as the right-left establishment that supports open borders, free trade, cosmopolitan culture and global intervention. He would stand as a right-left populist who supports closed borders, trade barriers, local and nationalistic culture and an America First foreign policy. In an age of anxiety, that closed posture might have a shot at winning. ... "I personally doubt that Trump will be able to pull off a right-left populist coalition. ... But where Trump fails, somebody else will succeed. And that's where he's substantively revolutionary. The old size-of-government question was growing increasingly archaic and obsolete. In country after country the main battle lines of debate are evolving toward the open/closed framework." nyti.ms