Opposition research may finally bring Trump down, that’s the ticket

Oppo is ubiquitous now. Technological advances have enabled the media, and politicians, to do things that had been previously only dreamed of. In the case of politicos, technology and the internet (and its dangerous progeny, Facebook and Twitter) permitted even the most modest campaign to develop crucial databases containing information about opponents.

U.S. President Donald Trump, pictured in this file photo. Politicos and political scientists are frustrated by the stubborn Trump voter. Entire forests have been felled to print analyses about how to pry lose Trump’s core voters.Photograph courtesy of Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY WARREN KINSELLA

October 30, 2017

TORONTO—The 70 per cent of Americans who self-identify as Democrats or Independents share one thing: they hate, hate, hate Donald Trump. They want him gone. Impeached, indicted, whatever. Gone. The 30 per cent of Americans who still call themselves Republicans, however, love him. They adore him. ...

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