Trump Is His Own Worst Enemy

Mr. Edsall, a contributing Opinion writer, comments weekly from Washington on politics and demographics.

President Trump appears determined to prevent his party from achieving a durable majority coalition anchored by a multiracial working-class base.

Trump’s posting of a video portraying Barack and Michelle Obama as apes is one of his more glaring miscalculations, which have given Democrats an opening to halt a steady erosion of support among minority voters crucial to their party’s chances for success.

In 2024, Trump demonstrated that a conservative Republican could make a dent in a seemingly immovable Black Democratic monolith while winning levels of Hispanic........

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