2. One thing that Trump did that was politically very effective was pose election as a choice between economy & covid policy. Lots of working class voters feared covid but also feared losing work even more (and had jobs that couldn't be done from home).
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3. The fact that Trump got some traction on this message shows how there are real tradeoffs. Biden was right to run on Covid, politically because it gained him more votes than it lost, but also more importantly a policy matter (it was the right & necessary message).
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4. I suppose Biden & his team could have calibrated message a bit more (emphasizing, as occasionally done, that path to economic recovery was through covid being vanquished). But messaging can only get you so far. Politics has tough choices.
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5. More broadly, discussion of 2020 election would benefit from looking at actual arguments Biden made (and Trump also) rather than assuming it was a contest between, I dunno, AOC versus Trump. (Same for 2016 & Clinton/Trump).
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6. Both after the narrow loss of 2016 and the narrow win of 2020, establishment Dems have avoided an autopsy of the actual campaign run by their side, blaming instead outside factors (which, to be sure, played a role).
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Also you can't underestimate the impact of the stimulus payments
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I heard so many people, not Trump voters, refer to the stimulus checks as their “Trump money.” There’s a reason he insisted his name be on them.
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Was this really an alternative theory? I feel like there were a lot of "Trump's economic message resonates with Latinos" takes in 2020.
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I do think the mainstream media biases white collar workers a lot. I do see that phrase all the time but it's extremely rare for liberals to frame their policies in ways that people being able to increase shifts is good. It was always close + extra checks.
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