'Something I've never forgotten': Scaramucci reveals what Trump told him about MAGA voters
Anthony Scaramucci, who lasted barely 10 days as Donald Trump's White House communications director before turning into one of his more persistent critics, says there is one thing about the president that his opponents keep getting wrong: they assume he does not understand the culture war he so often wins.
In a post Sunday, Scaramucci offered an unusually admiring read of Trump's political instincts, casting him as a master strategist of cultural conflict. "He is the Napoleon of the culture war," Scaramucci wrote, reaching for a comparison drawn from Andrew Roberts' biography of the French emperor. Just as Napoleon "saw the entire battlefield" and anticipated his opponents' moves "before they even made the decision," Scaramucci argued, Trump does the same with culture, intuitively grasping issues from transgender athletes in sports to the anti-woke backlash to the sensibilities of the Bible Belt.
The heart of the post was a private remark Scaramucci said has stuck with him for years. "He told me something once I've never forgotten," he wrote. According to Scaramucci, Trump described his coalition in terms that cut against the usual partisan labels: "He said my base is socially conservative and fiscally liberal. They are working class people who need the government's help."...