LEE CARTER: Election 2024's top lesson is about one crucial thing and we need to learn from it
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Trump’s campaign wasn’t just about negativity—though it grabbed the most media attention. He asked a simple, resonant question: Are you better off today than you were four years ago?
Lee Hartley Carter is president of Maslansky + Partners, a language strategist, researcher and author of "Persuasion: Convincing Others When Facts Don't Seem to Matter" (TarcherPerigee, September 3, 2019). Follow her on X on @lh_carter.
Anyone who dared question them—who believed things might have been better just four years ago—was labeled as a uneducated or ill-informed. If they dared to align themselves with Trump they would be called racist, misogynist, fascist, or, worse, a Nazi. That’s a hard sell to a frustrated electorate.
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