Trumpeting expectations

Two experts paint a variegated picture of the next four years

“The idea that political virtue is all on one side is both mischievous and absurd,” so sayeth Anthony Trollope’s fictitious prime minister Pllantagenet Palliser in The Prime Minister. Those of us with common sense know that’s true, though currently we don’t act like it.

By the time you read this Donald J. Trump will probably be president of the United St…