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National politics will replace President Trump’s second term, although we don’t yet know how.
By Jess Bidgood
President Trump returned two and a half days ago and the cascade of news has not stopped.
With one stroke of a pen, the president sought to end citizenship through birth. He allowed the finals to be unleashed in the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol. Withdrew from the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Agreement. repression against immigration.
He is already changing the country, and the nation’s politics are going to change with it — though we don’t yet know how.
As the Trump era begins, I need to take a step back from the news to define the most sensible political stories my colleagues and I will see over the next year.
Here they are:
Is the public behind Trump’s expansive agenda?
Trump has claimed an electoral mandate, despite his relatively narrow margin of victory, and the early days of his presidency have shown just how aggressively he intends to enact his agenda, testing the limits of his power in the process. In a country that’s used to — and tired of — deadlock in Washington, this could be good politics. But some of his sweeping actions, including giving clemency to nearly 1,600 Jan. 6 defendants or his effort to end birthright citizenship, are downright unpopular. We will be watching what that means for his new coalition.
It’s still the economy, stupid.
Speaking of Trump’s coalition: The president has rallied help from a younger, more varied coalition than Republicans before him, in part promising that a second term would bring the economic prosperity that working-class Americans escaped after the pandemic. However, the president’s plans to impose new price caps and deport gigantic numbers of undocumented immigrants may actually raise prices, rather than lower them. Will this fuel additional economic discontent in the country?Who will the electorate blame?
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