In the pages of daily newspapers and scholarly journals, there is a kind of shadow war being fought over Donald Trump’s legacy. Journalists, scholars, and politicos across the ideological spectrum are trying to piece together the president’s sometimes ambiguous, seemingly contradictory policy instincts.
The president doesn’t fit into the typical boxes of traditional conservative or a progressive leftist. This leads many pundits and bureaucrats to believe that it must be that the president is confused.