David Brooks: How Trump wins again

As several people have noticed, this was the most politically successful week of the Trump presidency.First, President Donald Trump’s job approval numbers are rising. When the impeachment inquiry got rolling in October his Gallup approval rating was 39. Now it’s 49. If he can hold this level, he’ll probably be reelected.Second, impeachment never became a topic of conversation among rank-and-file Democrats, let alone independents and Republicans, so it was easily defeated in the