While Trump fulfills pro-life promises, Congress disappoints

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The 2016 election of Donald Trump was instructive on many levels. For one, it gave voice to the millions of people who spent years in obscurity, feeling marginalized or forgotten by the Obama administration — even many who voted for Obama. The Trump phenomenon either widened or fundamentally shifted the Big Tent of the Republican Party.

Second, the election reminded the suits of Washington that Americans care about abortion.

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