Trump’s Second Term Promises To Usher in a New Era of Normalcy

The president-elect leaves the Democrats with no possible allegation against him except the imperishable and fraudulent allegation that he was anti-democratic and a threat to constitutional liberties.

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President Trump during a roundtable with faith leaders at Christ Chapel on October 23, 2024 at Zebulon, Georgia. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Steadily and almost imperceptibly, normalcy is returning to American political life. For the last eight years the conventional wisdom endorsed by practically all of the national political press, and nodded at complacently by almost all the elites as an unquestionable truism, has been that the Trump phenomenon was a lawless and extreme byproduct of the megalomania of a mad and extremist billionaire. 

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