At a time when questions about the rule of law are in the air, it is important to remember that Donald Trump hasn’t overturned Isaac Newton’s third law of motion, which rules Washington, just as powerfully as it rules physical phenomena.

As applied to politics the way it is to physics, Newton’s third law reminds us that every action in the capital produces an equal and opposite reaction. The effect of Newton’s law is what the White House has been living on.

It also should be what it is thinking — and worrying — about.

If Trump and his acolytes believe — this is a credible notion — that the actions of the Barack Obama presidency (a massive overhaul of the health-care system) produced the reaction of the first Trump administration, and if they believe that the actions of the Joe Biden pre

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