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Trump’s Change in Campaign Strategy Might Be His Downfall.
A lot’s changed since 2016, and Trump’s new ways of appealing to voters just isn’t working.
As I’ve said many times before, under what we might consider to be “normal” circumstances, I firmly believe presumptive Democratic nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden would not have a chance against Donald Trump. But as the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting fallout continues to affect lives all across the country, with over 130,000 people dead, polling consistently seems to indicate that the current occupant of the White House may indeed be voted out in November. While it will be incredibly satisfying to see him potentially leaving office in just a matter of months, I can’t help taking notice of how drastically different his campaign style has been in comparison to 2016, and part of me has begun to wonder if that might be contributing to what could be a massive loss in November.
In 2016, as dangerous and vile as his campaign might have been, there’s no denying that he touched on some substantive issues, coupled with the fact that he undeniably had his finger on the populist sentiment that’s only continued to become more . While it has been frankly difficult not to focus on the racism and xenophobia so prevalent with his platform, looking back it’s easy to…
