Despite mutual contempt, Trump and Warren overlap on several issues

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President Trump and Elizabeth Warren may be mortal political enemies, but the populist pair have more in common than either they — or their legions of supporters — care to admit.

On protectionist trade measures and noninterventionist foreign policy, Trump, 73, and Warren’s instincts overlap in a number of ways. That’s becoming more apparent as Warren, 70, solidifies her place atop the 2020 Democratic presidential primary polls with her call for “big, structural change.” Her campaign catchphrase even echoes Trump’s 2016 promise to “make America great again,” except from different ideological extremes on the political spectrum, said George Washington University’s Matt Dallek.

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