Trump’s Early Successes Suggest He Could Establish an Enduring Political Template

The soon-to-be 47th president is succeeding at just about every enterprise he undertakes, while his political and ideological opponents are failing in spectacularly visible fashion.

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President-elect Trump after meeting with Republican leadership at the Capitol, January 8, 2025. AP/Jose Luis Magana

“It is not enough in life that one succeed,” the droll economist John Kenneth Galbraith is supposed to have said. “Others must fail.”

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