Looking for Donald in all wrong places: New aspects of Trump character

Zero-sum politics has infected congressional Democrats and parts of the news media, and is seeping into the everyday political discourse

Donald Trump. Photo: Reuters

Back when he was president, Barack Obama told me that only two people treated any interaction with him as a zero-sum game. One was Vladimir Putin, the other congressional Republicans. Both behaved as if there was no such thing as a win-win situation: Any gain for Obama was a loss for them, and any gain for them must also entail a loss for Obama. The moment that the Russian president or congressional Republicans saw he