(CNN) The deeper the change sweeping America, the more President Donald Trump digs into positions that even some of his natural allies have recently forsaken. The President's conduct is consistent with a lifetime of going against the crowd and his impulse to use racial and cultural flashpoints for his own advantage. The NFL has apologized to its own black players -- whom Trump blasted for taking a knee during the National Anthem to protest police brutality. Even some Republican senators, on whose support Trump can normally depend without even asking , broke with the President in the controversy over Confederate symbols. But three years on, Trump appears to be outpaced by the change erupting all around him, and the stakes of his strategy are becoming increasingly high.

Source: CNN June 12, 2020 03:56 UTC