Donald Trump finds himself in an enviable position. More than any other president-elect in recent memory, he is his own man who owes almost nothing to large donors and other partisan power brokers. And this has given him room to maneuver. Over the coming months, President-elect Trump will have to address a number of pressing policy questions, of which the ongoing Obamacare crisis is by far the most important. How he resolves that crisis will tell us much about how he intends to govern.
I have a working hypothesis, which is that as president, Trump will successfully divide Democrats and expand his narrow political coalition. Yet he will do so by alienating more ideologically minded Republicans, not least on Obamacare.
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