Apex Trump

"A has power over B," said the political scientist Robert Dahl, "to the extent that he can get B to do something that B would not otherwise do."

In Washington's new power equation, "A" is Donald Trump and "B" is everyone else.

He has spent nearly a decade in presidential politics, remade the Republican party in his image, won the GOP nomination three times, and defeated the Bushes, the Clintons, Kamala Harris, and, by extension, Joe Biden and Barack Obama.

He clawed his way out of the political wilderness after 2020 by capitalizing on flawed opposition, the personal and policy failures of Biden and Harris, and prosecutorial lawfare. In 2024, he won the popular vote, brought Republicans an electoral trifecta, and assumed the powers of the presidency in all but name.

Trump forms his administration at warp speed. Wall Street swoons. The world holds its breath.

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