Art Laffer is a famous economist, one of the brains behind President Ronald Reagan’s supply-side tax cuts in 1981. But he was also a political adviser to Reagan and other presidential candidates. Based on history rather than polls or demographics, he insists Donald Trump will win the presidential race—and win easily. History is an argument not often heard in presidential elections except in one case: the likelihood that after one party holds the White House for eight years, that party probably won’t win four more years. The one exception in the past half-century was the election of George H.W. Bush in 1988 after eight years of the Reagan presidency. But Laffer doesn’t rely heavily on that case. Instead, he cites six historical parallels, comparisons, or developments that he says point inescapably to a Trump victory over Hillary Clinton in November. The first is what Laffer calls 1979-1980: How the Reagan Revolution Began. Reagan was disrespected and abused by significant segment of the Republican establishment, Laffer notes. The torrent of anti-Reagan epithets never stopped.
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