… Politicians can and do change their minds. The view from Air Force One differs from the panorama visible on the campaign plane. But democracy requires some important correlation between words uttered on the campaign trail and actions taken in the Oval Office.
Without such linkage, elections are a farce. If voters can’t count on some relationship between what a candidate says and what he or she will later do, they are denied the possibility of making a reasonable choice. …
No candidate has so thoroughly turned his back on his own campaign promises, more often, or more completely, than Donald Trump. CONT.
Mark Mellman (Mellman Group), The Hill