{"id":223813,"date":"2026-05-04T16:54:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=223813"},"modified":"2026-05-04T16:54:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:54:45","slug":"can-the-us-democrats-beat-trump-by-becoming-more-like-him-a-chinese-academic-weighs-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=223813","title":{"rendered":"Can the US Democrats beat Trump by becoming more like him? A Chinese academic weighs in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Democrats have pursued \u201cselective Trumpification\u201d since losing power in 2024, but their strategy of borrowing from the president\u2019s agenda and mimicking his abrasive style risks undermining their branding as guardians of American institutions, according to a Chinese academic.<br \/>\nTwo years ago, the Democrats lost the presidency to Donald Trump&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3352230\/can-us-democrats-beat-trump-becoming-more-him-chinese-academic-weighs?utm_source=rss_feed\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Democrats have pursued \u201cselective Trumpification\u201d since losing power in 2024, but their strategy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-style"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223813-can-the-us-democrats-beat-trump-by-becoming-more-like-him-a-chinese-academic-weighs-in.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223813-can-the-us-democrats-beat-trump-by-becoming-more-like-him-a-chinese-academic-weighs-in-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223813-can-the-us-democrats-beat-trump-by-becoming-more-like-him-a-chinese-academic-weighs-in-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223813-can-the-us-democrats-beat-trump-by-becoming-more-like-him-a-chinese-academic-weighs-in-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223813-can-the-us-democrats-beat-trump-by-becoming-more-like-him-a-chinese-academic-weighs-in-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223813-can-the-us-democrats-beat-trump-by-becoming-more-like-him-a-chinese-academic-weighs-in.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223813-can-the-us-democrats-beat-trump-by-becoming-more-like-him-a-chinese-academic-weighs-in.jpg",1280,720,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223813-can-the-us-democrats-beat-trump-by-becoming-more-like-him-a-chinese-academic-weighs-in-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223813-can-the-us-democrats-beat-trump-by-becoming-more-like-him-a-chinese-academic-weighs-in-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223813-can-the-us-democrats-beat-trump-by-becoming-more-like-him-a-chinese-academic-weighs-in-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=36\" rel=\"category\">Style<\/a>","tag_info":"Style","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/223814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}