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Bread or circus
Mark Sappenfield
Read our first two stories today, and one thing jumps out. The Trump administration is looking like it will take a blowtorch to business as usual in Washington, from health to immigration and beyond.
But the thing about disruption is that it is ... disruptive. And if this election was about anything, it was a reminder that everything comes back to how voters feel about the economy. Mr. Trump’s challenge will be in pulling the levers that lead to economic regeneration and avoiding those that only add to the political circus.
