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After defeating Trump in 2020, Biden retained some of Trump's populist policy tools (such as tariffs) but did not package them in the rhetoric of 'evil elites'; inflation became the biggest economic challenge of his tenure, and populists have almost no effective policies to address inflation—tools such as tariffs would in fact worsen it.
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11/6/2026
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