Trump

[Protheroe]

If the Dems beat themselves up about Biden they’re missing the point.

What do you think the point they are missing is and what should they have done differently?

I spent the whole of August in the US travelling through 3 different states. I have a lot of personal friends, colleagues and business contacts over there too.

Very simply this comes down to two issues prevalent here in the UK - the economy and immigration. The economy feels far worse for people there now than it was four years ago. Despite a "soft landing" prices have gone nuts, until last summer we hadn't been over since just before Covid - it's incredible how expensive even the basics are now. So despite being on average much richer than us Americans have felt Biden in their pocket.

In the cities there is the same problem with a lack of affordable housing as there is here. Similarly this is the basis of support for Trump's stance on immigration, which again Biden has nothing about. Just as in the UK second and third generation immigrants are questioning the sanity of a weak immigration policy that jacks up the price of housing and suppresses wages. Harris and the Dems still promise a route to naturalisation of illegals - which it seems even Latinos and Blacks are now rejecting.

Essentially the Dems are now the party of the Metropolitan elite. Trump, whether you like it or not - speaks like, and to a huge swathe of Americans. And because of that they are able to overlook the downside. What the Dems need to learn quickly, is that identity politics have failed them- and that Harris is likely to slump to a defeat even worse than Hillary.