By David Stockman
Donald Trump’s wildly improbable capture of the GOP nomination, therefore, is the most significant upheaval in American politics since Ronald Reagan. And the proximate cause is essentially the same. Like back then, an era of drastic bipartisan misgovernance has finally generated an electoral impulse to sweep out the stables.
Accordingly, the Donald’s patented phrase that “we aren’t winning anymore” is striking a deep nerve on the main street. But that is not on account of giant trade deficits or a faltering foreign policy and failed military adventures per se.
Indeed, it has very little to do with any patriotic impulse with respect to America’s collective policy, and everything to do with voter perceptions that they personally are not winning economically anymore, either......To Read More...
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