How Trump’s Detestability Lures Democrats Into Repeating Mistakes

They keep winning because voters hate Trump—they keep telling themselves otherwise

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I was struggling a bit with how to tee up this essay, but then

Matthew Yglesias

grabbed my attention with an insight from an anonymous source in Trump world. 

“We’re going to win because our message is Dems wants [sic] to sacrifice the interests of middle class Americans to benefit refugees, Ukrainians, criminals, and clima…