I don’t know if he can keep this tone, because unlike Ronald Reagan, he’s not an optimistic, generous person. But if he can, and he can keep his ideology anodyne, this message can resonate even with people who don’t like him. Trump’s speech reframes the election around this core question: Is capitalism basically working or is it basically broken? Trump can run on the proposition that it’s basically working. Democrats, by contrast, have congregated around the message that capitalism is fundamentally broken and that the economy is bad.

Source: New York Times February 06, 2020 22:52 UTC