Originally Posted by Joshua G

should he actually become president he is going to find congress as impossible to deal with as obama. business & politics are entirely different animals. in business, everyone wants to make a deal. its win-win. Thats not politics at all. When one side wins, the other loses in politics. there are strong interests opposing the Donald getting anything done.

first, the dems will likely reverse the repub playbook & simply say No to anything he wants like repubs did to obama. second, his economic views (trade wars, border walls) are opposed by the leaders of his own party. while he's trashing transpac, his parties leaders are aligning with obama to try & pass it. So he's gonna struggle to make deals with the leaders of his own party who are for sale to the kochs.

Trumps best bet at success is to try & build a bi-partisan coalition of moderates on both sides that have the balls to ignore their respective party leaders, who will do anything to prevent working with the other side.