Dropping that policy, at least temporarily, and instead effectively embracing a no-strings-attached amnesty for those illegal immigrants who were brought here as minors might boost the president’s popularity. But in no sense have these moves advanced anything that could be reasonably described as a pre-this-week Trump agenda. They constitute more an abandonment of Trump’s own prior agenda than a break with the congressional GOP.

Domenech goes on to suggest some worthwhile deals that Trump could make with the Democrats, such as “DACA for E-Verify.” In my opinion, that would be an excellent deal substantively and would also benefit Trump politically. But that wouldn’t be a break with the congressional GOP: It would represent the fond hope of much of it. And it would require undoing half of this week’s pivot (the let’s-codify-DACA-pronto half), which put any such deal further out of reach by telling Democrats they need not make any concessions to get what they want.