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Michael Stutchbury

The inflation and immigration lessons of Trump

Donald Trump’s question to voters - “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” - has cut across gender and racial divisions.

Michael StutchburyEditor-at-large
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As American politics polarises around tribal culture and identity, its presidential election results have been both tighter and more high-stakes consequential.

The 2024 election suggests that the Biden-Harris Democrat failures on inflation and immigration have emphatically outweighed the political costs of Donald Trump’s blue-collar Republican assault on cultural progressivism, including on abortion rights and democratic institutions.

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Michael Stutchbury is editor-at-large. He is in his fourth decade of writing for and editing national newspapers. After nearly six years as editor of The Australian, he returned to the Financial Review as editor-in-chief (2011-2024). Email Michael at mstutchbury@afr.com

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