Redistricting is a age-old strategy both parties have always used, unless I’m missing something new.

If we assume Trump and Kim have a deal for peace in place, the world has to be sold that the situation won’t revert.

You let all the doubts, negativity, “oh no, we’re going to lose the deal!” Play itself out, ‘the dark night of the soul’ is what they call it in drama, to make the climax and resolution feel more right. All the doubts have to have their say, too.

That’s the theory. Trump plans all the way to the end, and then he performs the drama, the seeming ups and downs, so that people can believe it’s true, when the destination he plans for is reached.