Peter Baker: ‘We Should Not Expect Trump To Be the Unifying Leader He Sometimes Pretends He Wants To Be’

EXCERPT:

BAKER: “Yeah, no, but if past is prologue, I think we should not expect the unifying leader that he sometimes pretends he wants to be. It’s just not his metier, to use a word I heard recently around this table. That’s not the way he rolls. He does have moments where he wants a little stability over chaos, where he feels it will benefit him. But let’s face it, he’s working with one party, not two, right? He’s not trying to work across the aisle. He’s not having any conversations that we know of with Democrats to talk about their priorities or how to have joint priorities. They actually could come to deals on some really important things. There are immigration deals, for instance, to be had, if he wanted to have them on DACA, you know, with some border stuff, that kind of thing. He has indicated no interest in that. And his appointments of, or his choice of people like Kash Patel for the FBI and Pete Hegseth for the defense indicates to me that retribution is high on the list, whether it also comes along with building some policies or not.”

(via RealClearPolitics)