What If Trump Weren’t Nuts?

John Harris: “Let’s dispense, for the moment, with normative judgments of psychology and law and confine this instead to a purely analytical exercise about politics: What if Trump weren’t nuts? That word works well enough to describe a president who says things that no other presidents has said, who picks fights that no other president would pick, who has shattered so many norms that he has altered, perhaps permanently, Washington’s definition of normal. Even Trump, who would not agree that he is nuts, does not seem to mind and at times even jokes about the common perception among foes domestic and foreign that he is.”

“With an unemployment rate at just 3.5 percent, he would have a wide and possibly leisurely path to re-election, rather than the narrow and arduous one he is facing. More than that, he likely would be basking in recognition of how many of his signature ideas have crashed through old barriers and are driving the agenda in both parties.”