Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

How Democrats Can Defeat Trump on Policy

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June 20, 2018 at 2:18 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

It’s reeeeeally unpopular.
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The family separation policy is bringing up once again a question for Democrats: How should they react to Republicans who break with President Donald Trump to some extent but fall short — perhaps far short — of actions they could take to defeat him?

Congressional Republicans have the capacity to defeat Trump on policy if they want to. As political scientist Matt Glassman put it: