Is the Hillary Clinton campaign ready to face Donald Trump?

Good luck nailing down Trump to specific policy positions, Madam Secretary. Hillary’s first attack against Trump was for opposing a minimum wage increase, a seemingly reasonable interpretation of Trump’s past statement, “Taxes too high, wages too high, we’re not going to be able to compete against the world. I hate to say it, but we have to leave it the way it is.” But then by the time the Clinton attack landed, Trump insisted he was pushing for an increase in the minimum wage.

In the coming months, Trump is going to hit Hillary Clinton on the Iraq War… from the Left. Trump is going to hit her as a bribed stooge of Wall Street… from the Left. He’s going to hit her on trade agreements… from the Left.

If you want to see the Republican nominee making conservative arguments, this is terrible. But if you just want to see Hillary Clinton on the defensive and flummoxed, this is hilarious to watch. We just watched Hillary Clinton get hit from the left for months by Bernie Sanders, and she mostly outlasted him and used her institutional support as leverage.

Hillary Clinton is the ultimate candidate of the status quo in a change year. She’s the Obama cabinet member who rarely if ever criticizes his decisions; she’s the New York senator who voted for the Iraq War and TARP; and she’s obviously closely tied to the policy decisions of her husband’s presidency. If anything done in Washington in the past twenty-four years has bothered you, the chances are good Hillary Clinton had a hand in it.

Trump’s argument will be that a vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote for four more years of more of the same. For all of his myriad flaws, that’s one big advantage.