Cornell Belcher is a Democratic pollster, so I will acknowledge up front that he is a political partisan.

Still, he offered a fascinating analysis of Donald Trump’s re-election campaign strategy. Speaking on National Public Radio this morning, Belcher said, in effect that Trump is campaigning against his own record as president.

Belcher noted that Trump is painting a picture of a nation falling apart, that it’s crumbling before our eyes, that our social fabric is disintegrating. Is the president seeking to unify the nation? Is he calling on voters to support all the strength he has brought to the nation?

No. He is running as if he is the challenger seeking to defeat an incumbent who’s done a horrible job. Get it? How does that bizarre strategy work?

Belcher also noted that Trump’s re-election strategy is light years removed from President Reagan’s 1984 re-election campaign theme that it was “Morning in America.” Reagan won a second term that year in a 49-state landslide.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump is slipping farther behind his challenger, Joe Biden. Come to think of it, if this trend continues, we’ll see a new “morning in America” once we get all the ballots counted later this year … and Donald Trump can prepare to depart the White House for the final time.