Four years after his supporters invaded the US Capitol, Trump is more powerful than ever

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : The ceremonial process that will clear the way for Trump's swearing in as the 47th president in two weeks will also highlight an extraordinary moment in political history in a nation where Trump is more powerful and popular than he's ever been.
59% : Trump won all seven swing states and became the first Republican since 2004 to win the popular vote, even if he fell marginally below a majority of votes cast.
47% : This sense of the end of an ancient regime was reflected Saturday when Biden made the latest of his postelection jabs at Trump.
46% : The democracy that Trump tried to desecrate will enshrine his return to power.
46% : Americans made a choice in November, and even though he conjured a day of infamy four years ago, they picked Trump.
43% : He awarded Presidential Medals of Freedom to recipients whom many Democrats see as embodying the democratic order that Trump repudiates.
33% : Most profoundly, Trump will send a message down through the ages that a president who refuses to accept the result of a free and fair election and who incites an attack on the Capitol can get away with it -- and regain power.
33% : Trump, with his searing anti-immigration rhetoric, succeeded in painting his chaotic presidency as a kind of lost golden age, despite the scenes of violence and lawlessness that he conjured at its end.
31% : It will also underscore the Democratic Party's failures in convincing voters that Trump represents a mortal threat to the country's democracy and that they had the answers to Americans' economic struggles and concerns over immigration.
31% : But by shrugging off his second impeachment over January 6, 2021, reestablishing his dominance over the GOP and winning a subsequent election despite multiple criminal indictments, Trump avoided paying a meaningful political price for his assault on democracy.
30% : And Biden and Harris, in one of their final acts in office, are restoring a tradition of smooth handoffs between administrations denied to them by Trump.
26% : (CNN) -- Late on a day of chaos and blood on January 6, 2021, it was unimaginable that Donald Trump -- who summoned a mob to Washington and told the crowd to "fight like hell" -- would get anywhere near the presidency again.
26% : Trump has promised to pardon those found guilty over the attack.
26% : If the core purpose of Biden's 2020 campaign was to purge Trump from American political life, then his presidency was a failure, whatever other achievements burnish his legacy.
24% : Sufficient voters seemed to decide that they'd prefer a strongman who better voiced their grievances than an alternative who warned that Trump was a threat to democracy.
17% : Trump, with a storm of misinformation, has convinced millions of Americans of his lie about the 2020 election being stolen.
14% : To explain it away as a protest that just got out of hand," Biden wrote without naming Trump.
11% : They included former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who lost to Trump in 2016.

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