An echo and a choice: the Trumpification of American policy

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  The Economist Hi, this is John Pridot,

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  host of Checks and Balance, our US politics podcast.

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  The choice facing America in less than a month will not be made by voters weighing rival sets of policies.

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  Kamala Harris's plans lack detail, Donald Trump's are sometimes untethered from reality,

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  and in any case divisions over culture motivate voters more than tax policy.

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  Yet the choice matters hugely in policy terms for America and the rest of the world.

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  This aspect of the election has been undercover relative to fantasies about what Haitian migrants in Ohio have for lunch.

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  Our current issue,

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  which contains eight concise policy briefs on the areas where we think the election will make the most difference,

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  is intended as an antidote to that.

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  Our list is selective.

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  We have left our subjects where the contrast between the two candidates is stark,

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  but which have no direct bearing on public policy.

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  These include the candidate's characters,

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  what the election would mean for institutions, and even for American democracy.

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  Nor have we included abortion,

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  where the candidate's different views are unlikely to translate into markedly different policies,

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