let me go full-bore pundit for a second and say my read is: the electorate is trying to heal itself. people are tired of hating their neighbors. and the desire for ‘normalcy,’ driven by socialized hatred of biden over age & gaza & inflation, is — catastrophically — crystallizing around donald trump
this is why i think the age-related cross tabs are real, or at least plausible. if you're 18, trump has been a major political figure since you were in third grade. if you're 22, he’s been in your life since middle school
"Make all the distressing noise stop" happens more swiftly, and more completely, in authoritarian states than democratic ones.
It's a helluva revealed preference, though.
