When Trump won in 2016, everybody was stunned. Trump’s support was, for the most part, underground and disorganized, and Trump himself seemed surprised.
So when Trump came storming into DC, he didn’t have a lot of troops behind him to take the fight to the DC hoards of legislators, lobbyists, bureaucrats, journalists, and lawyers. A #resistance sprung up, and Congress worked hard to slowwalk his appointments. Swamp creatures recommended other swamp creatures to staff the government.
It’s remarkable that Trump could accomplish so much, given that everything was arrayed against him.
The establishment is still arrayed against Trump, but this time around, the president has something he didn’t the first go-around: an organized MAGA movement with the power to push back hard. Trump has an army at his back and he doesn’t have to Jason Bourne his attack on the…
