President Donald Trump knows better than to treat the “honeymoon” a president gets in his first months of office as a time to relax. He’s fighting as hard now as he did at the height of last year’s campaign.
He’s even started what critics call a trade war.
Every week, the White House astonishes liberals—and often conservatives, too—with dramatic actions on every front from immigration to Ukraine.
Much of the media is in a daze. Democrats are dizzied and disoriented.
The president knows how to keep his enemies, and more than a few friends, off-balance.
But there’s a logic to this whirlwind of policy change: Trump knows his clock is running.
The tariffs are the biggest risk Trump is taking in domestic policy.
If this is a trade war, its stakes are existential for the administration, with the potential to cost Republicans dearly in next…
