The hopeless folly of schoolmarming Trump

Here is an inconvenient truth: The GOP base likes Trump's rudeness and rabble-rousing

President Trump.
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It's time, once again, to talk about President Trump's tweets.

Trump's online rudeness and rabble-rousing, amplified by real-life boorishness and combativeness at everything from press conferences to campaign rallies, contributed to his party's midterm shellacking in the suburbs despite a booming economy. Affluent, college-educated voters who have been open to GOP candidates before don't find Trump presidential or personally admirable — especially women.

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W. James Antle III

W. James Antle III is the politics editor of the Washington Examiner, the former editor of The American Conservative, and author of Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?.