Trump Is on a Roll, but He Shouldn't Get Overconfident
The problem for Democrats isn't simply that Mr. Trump has seen through so many of his campaign promises. It's also that swaths of voters believe him to be on the common-sensical side of so many controversies. The University of Pennsylvania realized only recently that male athletes shouldn't be allowed to compete against women, and that female athletes shouldn't be forced to share locker rooms with the opposite sex. Mr. Trump understood that a long time ago, as did your average American, even while left-wing Democrats and 'activist-scholars' spent years defending the school's cockamamie position.
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