After Mr. Trump won the election but before he took office, I suggested that he govern playing "small ball," analogizing to the successful baseball practice of grinding out scores rather than swinging for the fences.  Others disagreed.  And I guessed that temperamentally, Trump was ill suited to such a strategy, which has proved to be the case.  But with Trump's first major policy initiative on immigration going down to defeat (at least for the time being), swinging for the fences may be out – something Trump himself seems to realize. It is hard to paint President Trump's immigration initiative as a success thus far, with the Wall Street Journal calling it a debacle.  That doesn't mean that Trump is wrong on the merits, or that the courts that have frustrated the policy have acted properly.  Indeed, it is entirely the opposite.  But his administration's failure to prepare the ground for the immigration rollout led...(Read Full Article)