Sound smart: conservatives should have seen this coming. Trump goes where the applause is loudest. If that means being a full-throated birther, fine! If that means inciting hysterics about Mexicans, game on! If that means hugging NATO or smiling at corporate cronyism, Trump’s your man! It would be a hoot if he came full circle and morphed into Michael Bloomberg.
The list of his shifts:
Centrist forces led by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were ascendant, now are dominant.
Trump’s salvo in the N.Y. Post was an invitation for Steve Bannon to change his approach, or resign.
Trump changed his stances on NATO, Chinese currency and the Ex-Im Bank. (White House officials say he’s not reversing himself — these targets are hearing his concerns and coming his way.)
SecState Rex Tillerson was finally in the spotlight.
All this follows the successful Xi meeting at Mar-a-Lago, and the Syrian intervention over Bannon’s objection.
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