10 words that should scare Donald Trump in 2020

The idea, as I said earlier, is that many people voted for Trump not because he thought he was an exemplary man, but because he was sick and sick. tired of feeling exploited or condescended by the elites of this country. Trump might look like one of those elites – high in a wealthy New York family, educated in private, billionaire schools – but the "in" crowd has never accepted it either. The fact that he looks like an elite but that he fought for the ordinary guy was the basis of Trump's call. (I spoke a lot about this at the beginning of the week.)

Trump's entire value proposition by 2020 is to prove to voters that he has promised to give the political class a difficult time – and that he's done just that. It's up to those bureaucrats who push the pencils! He stood up to the tyrants of the media and called them on their "false news!" And he told the elected Republicans that they'd better get on board or run the risk of being crushed!

When Trump gets into trouble, it's so his bull-in-a-china-shop routines start to produce collateral damage among the very ones who voted for him because they thought he would protect them from invading elites. It's fun to watch someone destroy a world you hate. It's a lot less fun when it's your world that is being dismantled.

The idea that Trump does not punish people who deserve to be punished – in the eyes of his supporters – is the real danger that this prolonged closure of the government poses. to him. The prevailing wisdom is that anyway, most of the people affected by the closure are democrats, the story of Mazzei paints a much more nuanced picture of the suffering of whom – and why. And it's not just democrats.

It is sometimes easy to lose sight of the wars between the messages of the two parties that when the government closes for 18 days (or more), it has the real world impacts that last longer, which are cut deeper and are much more nuanced than many members of Washington's permanent political class believe.

This closure influences how at least some people who have supported it now see Trump. And not in a good way for the president and his hopes of winning a second term in 2020.

Remember: if Donald Trump is not a fighter for the worker, he's just a tough guy. And no one likes the brutes of the schoolyard.