Originally Posted by
Julio3000
He has an opportunity. And I see it as a test of the campaign-era rhetoric used to sell him to skeptics: he's non-ideological, he's a populist, he's not really a Republican, etc.
Democrats are going to have to ask themselves some tough questions about whether or not they're capable of assembling a governing coalition with enough staying power to get anything bigger and more lasting done in the future (I'm not optimistic about that).
It's also going to be complicated by '18 electoral politics.