Our bipartisan dream

What’s good: For the second time in as many weeks, President Trump has moved toward a win by dealing directly with Democratic leaders. What’s better: His capitulation on demanding funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall, in an agreement that would protect 800,000 young people who came to America as children, is infuriating the hardest core of his base.

Ann Coulter, author of “In Trump We Trust,” now talks openly about impeachment. Rep. Steve King of Iowa said Trump’s base is “blown up, destroyed, irreparable and disillusioned beyond repair.” Their pain is America’s gain.

Wednesday night, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi emerged from a Chinese takeout dinner with a conceptual framework for legislation they said they had sketched out with the President: Dreamers would remain in exchange for more funding for border security — but no big, beautiful border barrier like Trump pledged would be built (“believe me”) on the campaign trail.

Yesterday’s Trump cannot definitively predict tomorrow’s. But if it does, it will prove to be a turning point in his presidency.

For seven months, the President has stumbled in the dark by outsourcing legislation to a divided Republican Party, which froze out Democrats entirely. He now seems inclined to go straight to the congressional minority he formerly alienated, giving Republicans the chance to take it or leave it.

Pray that the principled pragmatism he has applied to the debt ceiling and immigration seeps into talks over tax reform, infrastructure, maybe even health care. Wouldn’t that be something?