Ego Man has started his new term as a turbo-charged Lame Duck in all senses of the term, right down to executing a gazillion pardons, which is usually saved for the final days.
He has nothing to lose. He’s in the rare position of having had four years to think about how to go about achieving his goals, the second time around. Even during his first term you saw him transitioning from taking advice to being his own advisor.
He’s also the double-down queen. If things don’t go his way at first, he’ll simply double down and triple down, and quadruple down. If the economy doesn’t get better, he’ll double down on tariffs.
The odds are, the US will look markedly different in four years. For better or worse.
