Liberals desperately pretend his rise is a message from Russia, not voters.
.. Results do not flow: Nordstrom’s stock is up since being bashed by Mr. Trump. If he tweeted tomorrow that the IRS ought to investigate Amazon—a threat he made during the campaign—nobody at the IRS would likely change a thing they were doing. Barack Obama would not have had to tweet a word.
.. Perhaps the latter will become the Jared Kushner show. It might become the Bob Corker show if Mr. Trump wisely reaches out (as another Republican president, Reagan, did) to a Tennessee senator to put a disordered White House on the straight and narrow.
.. Sixty-three million Americans were trying to get Washington’s attention. We still hope for real achievements. At worst, Trumpian gridlock is probably better than Obama gridlock (look at the stock market). In the meantime, the body politic will listen to itself. In four years, thanks to Mr. Trump, it will have been drilled into both parties’ heads just how badly things have gone wrong in our country