Trump’s increasing isolation: ‘He doesn’t resemble the party’
Trump’s increasing isolation: ‘He doesn’t resemble the party’
By Matt Viser -- The Boston Globe
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s marriage to leaders of the Republican Party began as one of convenience, not love.
It’s starting to get a lot more inconvenient.
The fractures in the GOP from 2016 — largely papered over following Trump’s surprising November victory — are reopening, creating an extraordinary circumstance. The gap between a sitting president and the mainstream of his own party is becoming a chasm.
Trump increasingly appears isolated, unable to rally allies to his legislative agenda. Republican senators, meanwhile, feel increasingly free to openly ignore him, unafraid of political repercussions as they dismiss his pleas to reopen the disastrous health care debate or change decades-old rules of their chamber.
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By Matt Viser -- The Boston Globe
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s marriage to leaders of the Republican Party began as one of convenience, not love.
It’s starting to get a lot more inconvenient.
The fractures in the GOP from 2016 — largely papered over following Trump’s surprising November victory — are reopening, creating an extraordinary circumstance. The gap between a sitting president and the mainstream of his own party is becoming a chasm.
Trump increasingly appears isolated, unable to rally allies to his legislative agenda. Republican senators, meanwhile, feel increasingly free to openly ignore him, unafraid of political repercussions as they dismiss his pleas to reopen the disastrous health care debate or change decades-old rules of their chamber.
READ MORE: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/tru...
