NYT columnist details scenario in which 'Trump wins' and Kamala Harris, Democrats 'blow it'
New York Times columnist David Brooks detailed in a column published Wednesday how former President Trump could win the 2024 election and how the Democratic Party and Vice President Kamala Harris could lose.
Brooks listed five reasons and ways Trump could be victorious. One way, he wrote, was if voters choose the red model, which he wrote, "gives you low housing costs, lower taxes and business vitality" over the blue model, which "gives you high housing costs, high taxes and high inequality."
The New York Times also published a column on Tuesday on how Trump and the Republicans could lose the election, which was written by columnist Ross Douthat. Douthat largely attributed a potential Harris victory to a "minimalist" campaign message.
Another "turbine" Brooks described was that the Democrats "are the party of the ruling class," which he argued boiled down to the "diploma divide" in America.
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"Highly educated Democrats like Harris see themselves as increasing the size of government to help the downtrodden. But many Americans look at those efforts and they just see affluent people amassing more power for themselves in Washington. They conclude: This is what the educated elites always do. They promise to do stuff for us, but they end up serving only themselves," he wrote.
Brooks said "social and moral cohesion" would be another element that would aid a Trump victory and added, "When Republicans talk about immigration, crime, faith, family and flag, they are talking about ways to preserve the social and moral order. Democrats are great at talking about economic solidarity, but not moral and cultural solidarity."
General dissatisfaction, high levels of distrust and