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SALENA ZITO: No matter who wins, there is no exit from the roller coaster anytime soon. Many vot?

By Glenn Reynolds

SALENA ZITO: No matter who wins, there is no exit from the roller coaster anytime soon.

Many voters going into this election next month believe if Biden wins the presidency, the constant disruption, chaos, and social unrest will recede because Trump will no longer be president. Some of them are actually hinging their vote on that. Those exasperated voters and every reporter who spins that reasoning are as wrong about that as they were in their belief that the 2016 election was all about Trump. It never was.

Trump was never the cause of the conservative populist coalition that put him in office. He was the result of it. After decades of voters’ dissatisfaction with both political parties, institutions, government, and culture, they voted for themselves and their communities over both party?s establishments. It wasn’t about voting for Trump.

A lot of very smart people keep missing that critical nuance.

Indeed. And if you don’t like Trump, you really won’t like who comes next, if you succeed in knocking him off or bottling him up.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 12, 2020 (boomark / email).