As George Stephanopoulos tells the story in his memoir of Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential race, strategist James Carville was just trying to keep the campaign on message. He scribbled a few lines on a whiteboard and stuck it to a pillar in the middle of the room at campaign headquarters. One of the lines read: “The economy, stupid.”The White House would do well to remember that phrase as President Trump’s re-election campaign revs up. If the president “indefinitely suspended” his threat of placing tariffs on Mexican imports...

Source: Wall Street Journal June 11, 2019 23:02 UTC