Michael Barone: Trying to take Trump seriously

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2016 turned out to be a year in which it was wise to take Donald Trump as a political candidate seriously but not literally, in the inspired phrase of the Washington Examiner’s Pittsburgh-based columnist Salena Zito. As 2017 is on the point of vanishing, it’s worth asking whether it’s time to take Trump seriously, if not literally, as a public policy maker.

At least that’s the approach of two heterodox policy analysts, one a persistent skeptic and the other an early Trump fan.

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