Trump Picked a Weird Time to Agree With Elizabeth Warren

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Nothing Donald Trump says or does is ever completely surprising, given his refusal to acknowledge any standards of consistency, predictability, or accountability to objective reality. But sometimes his timing is really odd, and that’s the case with his decision to repeat a previously rejected demand that Congress entirely abolish the statutory national-debt limit.

When Trump originally made this demand back in December, it was like a...