America is heading for two years of constitutional brinkmanship

Donald Trump will have to govern alongside a Democratic House of Representatives and Senate, a situation Republican strategist Adolfo Franco says could produce a political clash without modern precedent. Franco argues that Trump will favour transactional deal-making over conservative orthodoxy or constitutional restraint, combining bipartisan bargaining with aggressive unilateral action by the executive. On infrastructure spending, protectionist trade policy and state intervention to protect US manufacturing, Trump may find common ground with the Democratic centre-left.