What Trump can learn from Bill Clinton's comeback

There are lessons for our current beleaguered president in the Clinton precedent

President Trump and Bill Clinton.
(Image credit: Illustrated | Wikimedia Commons, Michael Snell/Alamy Stock Photo)

The president's approval ratings are low. His party is about to take a beating in the midterm elections. He is being investigated by a special prosecutor and is at some risk of being impeached. Most of the country voted against him the first time and he seems unlikely to win a second term.

All of the above describes President Trump now — and Bill Clinton in 1994. Trump used Clinton as a foil throughout 2016. From here on out, Trump should use him as a model.

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W. James Antle III

W. James Antle III is the politics editor of the Washington Examiner, the former editor of The American Conservative, and author of Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?.