Why Trump Rules Don’t Work for Democrats

John Harris: “There is no politician who craves power enough to seek the presidency, however, that he or she would not at least in some moods fantasize about being like Trump in a more fundamental sense: Able to defy convention and shatter precedents with impunity; indifferent to behavioral norms and pieties as enforced by the establishment political class and news media; utterly confident that supporters are too loyal or too intimidated to object.”

“A president liberated from traditional constraints is simply more formidable than one who has to act within them — on everything from soaring above ethical controversies to unilaterally dominating once-independent agencies to swatting away unfavorable news cycles.”

“But Democrats are unlikely to ever play by Trump Rules. When they have tried, as Graham Platner did, it typically just doesn’t work.”