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Megan McArdle: Trump ready to sell out his base on immigration

One almost admires a salesman who’s too brazen to craft a believable lie, the kind who simply utters obvious falsehoods and hopes you’re too polite to call them on it.

Megan McArdle | Bloomberg View

The most cursory evaluation of Donald J. Trump as a candidate revealed to us that he felt no need for small-minded consistency between his words and his actions. If it later proved convenient to back out of his promises, he’d do it in a New Jersey minute.

Well, Trump seems to have decided now might be a good time to break faith with the immigration hard-liners who formed the passionate core of his base: He had dinner with congressional Democratic leaders to discuss a path to legal status for some people who arrived in the U.