DONALD TRUMP AND HIS LEGACY
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Monday , January 18, 2020 by Gerard Baker THERE'S AS MUCH TO LEARN FROM DONALD TRUMP PRESIDENCY "President Trump’s greatest achievement will have been the elevation of the legitimate concerns of perhaps half the U.S. population" The best argument for Donald Trump’s presidency was never about the man himself. It was about the people who voted for him. It wasn’t really about what he would do for taxes, immigration or the federal judiciary. He did many needed things on those fronts for sure, but any clever Republican politician with a good pollster could have come up with that agenda. It wasn’t about his vaunted business experience and how he might inject a little necessary private-sector sense into a stultified bureaucracy. It certainly wasn’t about his penchant for conversation-dominating social-media expostulations—polls have indicated a consistent popular distaste for them. The best argument for Donald Trump was that he led and gave voice to mil...