1. With the deal he made with the Democrats, we saw a glimmer of the best-case Trump, the Republican Bill Clinton.
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3. The moderate (Chris Christie) & unorthodox (Peter Thiel) Republicans who supported Trump did so because he was a deal-maker.
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4. The deal-maker Trump was supposed to be able to break Washington gridlock by his willingness to work with anybody: a triangulating POTUS
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5. In practice, Trump hasn't been a deal-maker but has found it safer to work with hard right GOP on courts & immigrations
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6. There's plenty of signs that Trump is sick of GOP congress, sees them as dragging him down & disloyal.
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7. But if Trump is moving towards triangulations, it's out of spite not strategy. He wants to slap around McConnel & Ryan more than anything
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8. Trump's triangulation is unlikely to lead to anything substantive, only to increase chaos:https://newrepublic.com/article/144726/trump-screwed-republicans-now-what …
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Hard to see how he keeps his coalition together in 2020 with this strategy - this is just the flavor of the week.
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Trump won by appealing to just enough white people with an assist from Russia.pic.twitter.com/CMXcd0yzJB
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Trump won b/c Hillary was awful. Two of the most disliked candidates.
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