At least the NYT could have amended it to "fascination with outmoded, discredited, unscientific ideas about genetics." If not brave enough to apply the R word that rhymes with Base-ism (another word that might apply).
As Dan Abrams happened to put it today, Vance was "effective but dishonest". Not sure Abrams saw that as a criticism. But it straight-up Machiavellianism. Trump does that too, but with a different style.
Professionally, a silver-tongued devil.
The 'known quantity' of Trump as 45 may not match the quantity of Trump as 47 where the quantity of retaliation and violence looks to be higher. Guardrails gone?
Underestimating Harris: perhaps because direction of polling error tracks disparities between candidates in voter enthusiasm (and in '16 and '20 Trump had more). This could also be a cause of underestimating Trump, though this seems less likely this cycle (tho cycle not yet complete)
Promising but not definitive. Small sample of 19 cases, wide confidence intervals on either side of that line...
Trump evinces a 'Big Man' theory of most everything. "Trust me the Big Man, ladies". Also, trust the Big Man Putin (or Xi or Kim or Orban) at the expense of democratic alliances that balance many smallish power-sources. Also, Big Man theory of econ/business. But also, an ethnonationalist extremist.
Always backward-looking, identifying some (often biased) consensus in the past, loses the trail on any new paths forward.
It's literally ethnic cleansing.