Why Trump isn't turning into a lame duck | David M. Drucker

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : Trump is more popular now with his party than most second-term presidents.
65% : As Keystone College political science professor Jeffrey Brauer told me, "Trump seems to want to be president of everything.
59% : " Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS Feed | SoundStack | All Of Our Podcasts Trump also benefited from think tanks and advocacy groups, as well as a media ecosystem of friendly podcasters, online influencers and cable television networks, most of which did barely existed eight years ago but which matured as potent political allies and governing partners during former President Joe Biden's term.
57% : Trump took office this year more prepared than most second-term presidents in recent memory.
56% : Having lost reelection in 2020 but declined to retire from campaigning, Trump has been the central, all-consuming figure in American politics for a decade.
56% : But the 45th and 47th president is exerting political influence and wielding power like a chief executive in the prime of his first term.
55% : Ironically, this would make Trump a very typical second term president after all.
49% : Then, of course, there's the president's constitutionally questionable assertion of emergency tariff powers, his strong-arming of corporate America by pressuring some firms to hand the government an ownership stake, his deployment of the military on American soil, and his forays into higher education, the arts and even the Federal Reserve.
47% : "I see this as President Trump getting a mulligan," Liam Donovan, president of the Republican digital advertising firm, Targeted Victory, said.
46% : "One of the reasons for this is not only the non-consecutive nature of Trump's two terms, but the planning and intentionality that went into gearing up for the second term," said Marc Selverstone, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
40% : " By stretching his executive power, Trump is creating avenues for political backlash against him and his party, beginning in off-year contests this November and continuing through the 2026 midterm elections.
25% : " That's helped give Trump a stranglehold over Congress.

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