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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Trump’s First Term
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/26/president-trumps-first-termThat is partly exaggeration; rescinding an order that is beyond the rulemaking stage can take a year or more. But signing executive orders starts the process, and Trumps advisers are weighing several options for the First Day Project: He can renounce the Paris Agreement on greenhouse-gas emissions, much as George W. Bush, in 2002, unsigned American support for the International Criminal Court. He can re-start exploration of the Keystone pipeline, suspend the Syrian refugee program, and direct the Commerce Department to bring trade cases against China. Or, to loosen restrictions on gun purchases, he can relax background checks....
Most of the people I spoke with outside the campaign expected Trump to lose. But they also expected his impact to endure, and they identified examples of the ways in which he had already altered political chemistry far beyond the campaign. After seventy years of American efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, Trump has suggested that South Korea and Japan might be wise to develop them. Returning from a recent visit to Seoul, Scott Sagan, a political-science professor at Stanford who is a nuclear-arms specialist, told me, These kinds of statements are having an effect. A number of political leaders, mostly from the very conservative sides of the parties, are openly calling for nuclear weapons....
As President, Trump would have the power to name some four thousand appointees, but he would face a unique problem: more than a hundred veteran Republican officials have vowed never to support him, and that has forced younger officials to decide whether they, too, will stay away or, instead, enter his Administration and try to moderate him. By September, the campaign was vetting four hundred people, and some had been invited to join the transition team. An analogy was making the rounds: Was Trump a manageable petty tyrant, in the mold of Silvio Berlusconi? Or was he something closer to Mussolini? And, if so, was he Mussolini in 1933 or in 1941?
OverBurn
(956 posts)Hillary's odds went from 77% to 59% in a few days. It's got me scared. Trump is scarier than any terrorist. http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/
LenaBaby61
(6,976 posts)Especially when you've had "horse race" polls with disingenuous polling methodology introduced into the race which amongst other things: Polled MANY more non-whites, R's, Older voters, less younger voters, less educated voters (Who favor tRump) to KEEP the race artificially close and tightening between tRump and Hillary.
MSNBCRNCTMZ & CNN love those advertising $$$ which will definitely come from a Hillary/tRump horse race this fall.
no_hypocrisy
(46,159 posts)Christie loves sycophants. Anyone who wants to be close to power, influence, and money (lobbyists) would apply and get a job without having spent 30 seconds in the room with a president Donald Trump.
My point: A Trump Administration would more or less be a Christie Administration and look what he did with his opportunity for Bridgegate.
Lawyers on both sides of Bridgegate trial paint Christie as central figure
http://www.northjersey.com/news/lawyers-on-both-sides-of-bridgegate-trial-paint-christie-as-central-figure-1.1662514