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President Donald Trump owes his Washington comeback to a patchwork coalition of billionaires who gather in the gilded halls of Mar-a-Lago, middle-class suburbanites fretting about their 401(k)s and working class voters toiling in casinos and steel mills.
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“That’s a sign of how far the Overton window has shifted on some of this stuff, which is positive,” said Chris Griswold, policy director at American Compass, a think tank with ties to Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio that is championing economic populism from the right.
“But,” he added, “it’s clearly not shifted all the way.”
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