How Trump Weaponized Nostalgia (Again)

Children are the future—and yet politics is often about the past. Bloomberg Businessweek deputy editor Mark Milian assesses how Donald Trump used nostalgia to get reelected. Plus: The Elon, Inc., podcast does a quick assessment of Musk’s campaign role, and a look at polls’ performance. If this email was forwarded to you, click here to sign up.

This election was always about Donald Trump. Would Americans see him as a failed, one-term president—a convicted felon who brought dysfunction to the Oval Office, botched the country’s response to Covid-19 and stoked an insurrection—or as a change agent and standard bearer of American values who can repair a damaged economy and secure the borders? Voters chose the latter.