The Trump presidency’s first six months were the most dysfunctional and least accomplished in modern history: its major executive orders were unenforceable, its legislation dead on arrival; its communications dishonest; its assaults on the judiciary, the intelligence community, and the press unprecedented; its future clouded by scandal. Moreover, if Donald Trump had learned the first lesson of White House governance—that presidents cannot succeed without an empowered chief of staff—he had not grasped the second: that governing is different from campaigning. Instead of wooing his opponents and
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