Trump’s Two-Pronged Play for Normies and Populists
Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign has been a two-pronged effort. Trump, hailed and feared as a populist since he came down the escalator nine years ago, is mostly campaigning to the normies. His friends, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, Russell Brand — and, to some degree, J. D. Vance — are running a kind of parallel campaign. They are reaching out to the wild ones, the populist voters whom Trump first electrified, the ones who think the system, in one way...