In the distant, half-forgotten yesteryear of January 2019, Donald Trump was bound to lose the next election. There was no money forthcoming for his wall against Mexico. There was, come to think of it, no federal government at all, bar the workers who toiled without pay during a shutdown of his own choosing. He had lost a defence secretary and a chief of staff within weeks of each other. Pressed to name Washington’s most commanding septuagenarian, most would have cited speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi.
2019年1月已經成爲遙遠、快要被人遺忘的往昔,當時唐納•川普(Donald Trump)看起來將輸掉下一次選舉。他計劃在美墨邊界建造的隔離牆沒有任何資金來源。想想吧,除了在他自己造成的關門期間義務幹活的人以外根本就沒有什麼聯邦政府。他在幾周內失去了一名國防部長和一名幕僚長。要說誰是華盛頓氣勢最爲逼人的七旬老人,大多數人都會想到衆議院議長南希•裴洛西(Nancy Pelosi)。