The Left has accused him of wimping out. But how does excoriating the lack of “honest debate” endear him to the people who don’t agree with him, that now happens to be a majority of voters? And as for tone, he’s even for him unusually, well, angry. He is trying to be the boss, but he’s not, it seems, trying to act as the grand dealmaker, the figure who was going to bring us all together.