By no means am I the first to note Trump comes down on the same side of policy issues as most of the electorate. A popular way of labeling this is to call it “80/20” meaning something like 80% of us agree with him. He “gets” normal Americans; think of it as him “reading the room,” on a continental scale.
Hating Trump, Democrats have to take the 20 side because he is energetically on the 80 side. Democrats can't agree with Trump, thus their platform isn’t especially popular except with sexual exotics, AWFLs, and Ivy League grads.
Polls show quite a few Trump-hating Democrats actually hold Trump-like views on various issues. Of course, the poll questions must be posed without a reminder of Trump’s support to elicit positive responses.
The 80/20 issues include hiring and promotion on merit, excluding woman-identifying men from women’s sports, border enforcement, deportation of illegal aliens, tough-on-crime bail and sentencing, involuntary treatment for mental illness and addiction, policing vagrancy, requiring nations which wish to sell us goods to also buy from us, putting patriotism back in K-12 education, support for Israel, military preparedness, and so many more.
Another insightful label for Trump 47 is the “common sense presidency.” I am finding it refreshing.
