Will riots help or hinder Trump re-election?

Tuesday, 2 June 2020

If America were a society of browbeaten conformists like Australia then riots would unquestionably favour the opposition. But will it be so in a state defined by personal power?

Recent polling has Biden with a comfortable lead as Trump slides on the COVID-19 policy disaster:

But the lead is far from huge. Trump is actually better placed than Obama was as he approached his re-election challenge.

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About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.