This story was originally published on nationaljournal.com on March 7, 2017 President Trump is going to miss Hillary Clinton. Last November, both Trump and Clinton had enthusiastic supporters. But most voters cast negative ballots against one or the other. And some voters, called “double negatives” by pollsters, disliked both of them so much that they picked what they saw as the lesser of two evils or threw their support to Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson or the Green Party’s Jill Stein. (It’s worth keeping in mind that Stein’s vote count exceeded Trump’s victory margins in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, the three states that effectively determined the outcome of the election). Now that Trump doesn’t have a foil in Clinton, it’s all about him. Trump’s style seems more about subtraction and division, despite the fact that politics is supposed to be about adding and consolidating support. His well-received address to a Joint Session of Congress last week could have been a nice bit of addition. But his momentary triumph was rendered moot by ongoing controversies involving Russia and his intemperate tweets
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