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Daniel McCarthy, National Interest: Is the Left Trying to Get Trump Reelected?
"In decades past the scenes of arson and looting that followed the Floyd protests in many cities would have driven voters to a Richard Nixon or Ronald Reagan—or a Donald Trump. The Campus America kids think the country has changed, and their parents and grandparents will now see the police as bullies who sadistically pick on their always well-meaning if sometimes troubled and delinquent, sons, and daughters."
The predictable next turn in American politics, should Biden win, will be the rise of a new right-wing opposition. What form it will take is anybody’s guess—perhaps recrudescent neoconservatism, after the “libertarian moment” of the Obama era and the nationalist turn under Trump? Given Biden’s age—he would turn 80 in his second year in office—youth will probably be a theme Republicans try to develop. But the new opposition movement could take any form, depending in part on what events provide the occasion for organizing.
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WNU Editor: Americans do not have a habit of voting out Presidents during times of war or crisis, and we are definitely in a time of crisis today. So here is my prediction. I expect those who voted for President Trump in 2016 to vote for him again. Many Republicans who did not vote for him in 2016 will vote for him this time around. Independents who have been horrified with the riots and looting in many of America's major cities this past week will veer away from the Democrats and either vote for President Trump, or stay home. If polls like this are accurate .... Poll: Black Approval For President Trump Surges To Over 40% (June 5, 2020), the chances of former Vice President winning becomes even more difficult.
