Trump’s Resurgence Draws Parallels to Reagan’s 1980 Upset Victory › American Greatness
Roger Kimball
The 2024 presidential election is still more than 10 months away, but already there is a lot of déjà vu all over again about the festivity.
The smart money—which does not, I hasten to add, mean that it will turn out to be the most accurate money—has been telling us for months that wily Democrats have engineered Trump’s nomination because, clever chaps that they are, they know he cannot possibly win the election.
The main reason adduced is that Trump is not sufficiently popular to win. How do said pundits know this? Some point to the polls, though the polls have not been cooperating on that front of late. Trump is ahead in all or nearly all the swing states, and more and more polls put him ahead of Biden in the general election. Some adduce Trump’s “character,” his behavior after the 2020 election, and the cornucopia of indictments he faces in four separate jurisdictions. Back in December, Byron York summed up the state of play with this headline: “As Trump lead widens, prosecutors step up pursuit.”
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