“Wrong headed but maybe temporarily necessary to get the tax cuts he wants and we need.”
No, just wrong.
He wouldn’t be in this position if the House and Senate GOP had its act together.
Reagan worked this way. He went in with 70% nonnegotiable and 30% negotiable. He almost always got his 70%. Later, after the 70% worked so well, he’d get his 30%. Figure Trump will do the same.
And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.
Judges 16:30