It’s almost like a bizarre political science experiment: Just how many unpopular policies can one president pursue? From starting a war with Iran to threatening Greenland to building a new White House ballroom, President Donald Trump’s unshackled second-term priorities are compounding the mounting electoral risk for his party in November’s midterm elections.
Trump has always inspired strong emotions, pro and con. But in his first term, Trump pursued relatively few specific policies that big majorities of Americans opposed. He probably generated the biggest backlash with his moves to separate immigrant children from their parents at the border (two-thirds opposition ...