During his year-and-a-half-long campaign, President-elect Trump seemed like a man who held grudges. Whenever someone hit him rhetorically, he hit back harder. He called Mitt Romney a loser. He called Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman” who “has to go to jail.” The campaign was rumored to have an enemies list. His rhetoric often seemed more inspired by personal attacks against him than policy issues.
But perhaps the shock of winning and actually having to govern has given Trump a surprising new attitude: Let bygones be bygones.
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