Donald Trump hit the ground running in 2025 in a way that was impossible in 2017.
There are two reasons he has been able to do that: the obvious one is that he has been preparing for this moment for four years and has an excellent team of his choosing at his side; the less obvious one is why he has that team in place and why his opponents are mostly failing to get traction.
It’s easy to say that Trump got a mandate in 2024 in a way that was more ambiguous in 2016 or that Democrats were blindsided by their election loss and need time to recover their bearings before establishing a #resistance. But the #resistance is still there, and the media is still 100% in lockstep. It’s just that their power is much weaker because what appeared radical to the American people in 2017 now seems pretty unremarkable.
Trump’s ideas and policies seemed unthinkable to many…
