Conservative take: Clintonian Triangulation for Trump?
Back in the ’90s, the hot political strategy was “triangulation,” in which President Bill Clinton “steered a course between conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats in Congress.” Now, argues Byron York at the Washington Examiner, Donald Trump has a chance to do the same — merely “by keeping his campaign promises,” which a Wall Street Journal poll suggests “the public is eager” for him to do. The respondents’ top priorities — keeping jobs here, reducing lobbyists’ power and funding infrastructure — are “an outline of a Trump campaign speech.” It’s also “a road map for a president who didn’t win the popular vote to become a broadly popular leader.”