David French, the conservative New York Times contributor and longtime anti-Trumper, has a provocative take on why the president-elect won.
It’s the economy and the border, stupid.
"I can’t help but think that if the withdrawal from Afghanistan hadn’t been a bloody mess (that’s when President Biden’s approval rating went underwater, and it never came back), if inflation hadn’t spiked and if migration hadn’t surged at the border, then we’d be having a different conversation.
"I...