Don’t do it,’” Mr. Trump quoted his father as saying. PhotoAmid all his innumerable blunders, however, Mr. Trump got one or two things right that mattered more than all the rest. Mr. Trump rallied them less with policy promises than with gut-level pronouncements — against foreign trade, foreign wars and foreign workers. Democrats, too, who viewed Mr. Trump as plainly unelectable from the start, acknowledged at times that they might have been wrong to sneer at him early on. Hillary Clinton, appearing on NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Myers” last winter, noted that Mr. Trump had initially provoked “hysterical laughter,” before his call for a crackdown on Muslims.

Source: New York Times November 09, 2016 08:18 UTC