harness some of trump s populist appeal, some of the appeal to the cultural, blue collar voter, moving beyond and even denouncing his appeal to xenophobia, racism and everything else. ni she is getting paid by corporate america sitting on the board of directors for boeing. tim alberta, thank you so much. this book is absolutely a must read. i highly recommend it. american carnage out now. on a single night in january last year, 37,800 veterans did not have a place to call home. 37,000. think about that. the veterans community project is certainly thinking about it in kansas city. this nonprofit has transformed the lives of some homeless veterans now who have homes.
race. i grew up thinking eisenhower was too old to run for president and he would be have been younger. people want somebody to be 50ish. i think bernie sanders blew up that notion in the last election cycle. and age doesn t matter until it does, until there s an alternative that is a new shiny kind of inspiring face like a beto o rourke. i think what s going to be much more important than age in this cycle is who can bring that seek contract sauce of appealing to those midwestern industrial on a populist appeal, a working class appeal while also keeping this new coalition together of the republicans, the more affluent suburban, you know, moderate swing voters and not alienating them, not going too far to the left. i don t know what would emerge. that s the ideal candidate. but when you re courting
the polls and forcing the people in the middle to look at two bad options. sandra: are you better off today than you were two years ago? of course, the substance is very strong. i hope it wins out. honestly to this tone point i think the best thing about the president is his tone. i don t think he should have changed it. the whole point of donald trump was to come in and be different and speak differently and behave differently. why? people for decades have had politicians with great tone who delivered terrible results. republicans and democrats. they had an elitist policy agenda that benefited the rich and screwed working americans. the point of donald trump was to come in and tell them they re wrong, they re a disaster and support evidence by the useless mainstream media. the tone was absolutely central to his populist appeal. i guess. i agree with marc on this one. i think the president s tone has been problematic if he wanted to celek i can gains and
republicans. had he not pledge todd to defenl those, he would not have won. trumpism has evolved, i think, cuts against all of that. his populist appeal, you know, is limited especially with the tax cut bill. so, again, some of the issues that are working so strongly in his favor i agree. in his favor in the red states are exactly the issues hurting him in the industrial midwest. if there hadn t been a kavanaugh episode from the beginning to the end, all the way through dr. ford, blasey ford, if that hadn t happened, would he be better off or worse from today? trump. i think he would be worse off today. it s hard to say how it s going to play out in the midwest. there s no question about it, republicans, you falk to republicans, conservatives, they feel there is new energy. he feels he s on a roll. whether it s true or not we don t know. these are mirror images, that
conservative spectrum. you have the fact that it will explode the deficit, that this is not a fiscally responsible bill. on the other hand, you have the fact that it s just not a populist appeal. there s no way that this is in any way consistent with trump s campaign promises that he s going to stick it to the establishment, that he is going to make wall street pay its pfar share. there s really not a lot of consensus in the party other than this would be politically disastrous for us not to do. i want to read you this from politico and get your reaction. there is very little in the pipeline and no obvious next item on the agenda after tax reform except maybe a return to health care, said levin, the editor of national affairs, a leading conservative policy journal, who works closely with