As President
Trump enters the stretch run of his first year in office, two big things are
clear. He has not lost his remarkable instinct for reading the public mood, but
neither
has he found a way to harness that instinct into a successful governing
formula.
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Those two
threads of his presidency were on vivid display last week. Trump’s attack on
NFL kneelers looked like a throwaway line in a political endorsement, then
suddenly exploded into a new front of the culture wars.
Those
betting he had goofed learned nothing over the last two years. They’re still
drinking the Kool-Aid of the NeverTrumpers who insisted he could not win the
GOP nomination or the White House.
But even now,
it pays to remember there is a reason Trump won 30 states against Hillary
Clinton and, no, it’s not the Russians or James Comey or sexism. It’s that
Trump understood then — and still does — how to give voice to the anger and
angst of many middle- and working-class Americans who believe their government
betrayed them and their nation is leaving them behind.
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reading Michael Goodwin in the New York Post, click here.
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