How Donald Trump’s attack on the Democratic ‘squad’ reveals his 2020 re-election strategy

When Mick Mulvaney, Donald Trump’s acting chief of staff, gave a rare interview earlier this year he offered a glimpse into the plan for getting the president re-elected in 2020. 

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Argument A offered to the American people, he told The Atlantic magazine, would be on the economy – that to keep growth soaring voters needed another four years of Mr Trump. 

But there would be a secondary argument too, Mr Mulvaney added. It would be one based on their opponents. “‘We’re not socialists’ would be our B argument,” he said. 

The significance of that throwaway line has become all too apparent in recent months as Mr Trump has attempted to frame the entire Democratic Party as “radical” communists. 

At his…

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