Playbook: “If President Trump has succeeded in anything over the last month or so, it’s this: He has dragged House Democrats into his vortex of chaos, forcing them to wage momentary political battles without any reasonable evidence that they’ll succeed in the long term. It’s a method he’s employed with varied success as he hops from crisis to crisis, considering only the smallest increment of time in front of him while he runs out the clock on the Democrats’ various efforts to soften him up for the 2020 election.”
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