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Let's Close It Down

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This post is awhile in the making. I had it planned in December and the events of January 6 and everything else only seem to make it more relevant. So here’s my coda to the 2020 election. The question that bugs me as armchair pundit is this: Why didn’t Trump govern from the middle? I tend to think that he could have and would have won a decisive re-election. I don’t even know that he had to ‘do’ anything differently, but change his rhetoric. I will always recall Trump on the local radio on the night of the 2016 Caucus. He had a very broad pitch which keyed mainly on a big infrastructure package (Remember at that time, Cruz was running to the right of him) Of course, Reagan angered many on the left, but his rhetoric was always to all Americans. As someone with as much screen time as Trump, I’m surprised he didn’t learn this lesson. I also can’t move past a discussion on Trump without mentioning “2000 Trump”. QAnon fixates on the idea of JFK Junior praising Trump, but that was an entirel