Jessica Karl, Columnist

Populism Is Shifting America’s Economic Goalposts

Instead of the traditional red-blue disagreements over policy, it’s centrists and populists who are split.

Caged in.

Photographer: Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg

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I never thought of politics as having a scent — aside from stale pizza and blue slips — but now it does: President’s Donald Trump’s “Victory” perfume smells like a “rallying cry in a bottle.” If that’s the scent of the Republican Party, then what do Democrats smell like? Then again, maybe this isn’t a red vs. blue thing at all.