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I spent this past weekend in New Hampshire with the entrepreneur and Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang. Along seven stops on the campaign trail, I got pretty familiar with his stump speech, which is something of a mini lecture on the state of automation and the history of universal basic income, loaded with data and mostly lacking in big applause lines.

But what is particularly interesting is what he doesn’t talk about: Mr. Yang does not mention President Trump until the very end, and even then, his intention is to pay Mr. Trump a sort of backhanded compliment: “He got the problems right,” Mr. Yang likes to say, “but his solutions were the opposite of what we need.”

At a time when some of Mr. Yang’s more well-known rivals for the Democratic nomination have either built their candidacy around being the anti-Trump or have revamped their campaign to target him (I’m looking at you, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Beto O’Rourke), Mr. Yang has caught on with some Trump voters by harping on the pain and suffering people feel when they lose their jobs — and concerning himself with how to soften the blow.