Trump neutralizes Democrats’ attacks by adopting their positions
.. Never mind that in 2014 a federal judge ruled that the no-fly list was “arbitrary and capricious” because the government refused to even confirm someone has been placed on it, much less provide any way to challenge a no-fly designation, which violates the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee of due process.
.. On domestic policy, Trump has a followed a consistent strategy of neutralizing traditional Democratic attacks by adopting the Democrats’ positions.
.. In other words, by adopting the Democrats’ positions, Trump has closed off virtually all the major lines of attack (much as he has done on foreign policy, campaigning from the isolationist left). Clinton can’t hit Trump on guns . . . the minimum wage . . . cutting Social Security . . . or tax cuts for the rich . . . or trade.
.. So how will Clinton go after Trump? She will say that Trump is “temperamentally unfit” for the presidency.
.. Trump will respond in kind — going over all the old Clinton scandals, the Clinton Foundation, the FBI investigation into her use of a private email server. It will be the ugliest, least substantive campaign in memory.
But no matter how it turns out, we’ll get a president committed to the Democratic Party’s positions on most of the major issues at home and abroad.