Opinion: President Trump just can’t stop shooting himself in the foot
President Trump on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. By David Byler David Byler Data analyst and political columnist focusing on elections, polling, demographics and statistics Email Bio Follow Data analyst and political columnist March 26 at 5:44 PM Right now, President Trump has the right to spike the football — at least a little bit. Over the weekend, Attorney General William P. Barr released a summary of special counsel Robert S.
Trump’s basic political strategy seems to be to draw a hard line on immigration, be vague on other parts of policy while farming the specifics out to other lawmakers or members of his administration, dominate the news cycle with controversy, and focus hard on his opponents’ weaknesses. But those same strategies don’t work as well for a president. Beating up on John Kasich or Clinton just doesn’t land the same way when you’re not actually running against those people. And when Trump generates a controversy out of thin air, it doesn’t deprive an opponent of media coverage — it just makes him look bad.
Instead, he spent his first two years trying to repeal and replace the reasonably popular Affordable Care Act, passing tax reform, getting Brett M. Kavanaugh onto the Supreme Court and trying to get money for a border wall via a government shutdown. Justice Neil M. Gorsuch’s confirmation was a reasonably well-regarded victory, but most of the president’s major pushes were unpopular.
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