Opinion | Trump's 'mandate' stretch may snap back hard

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : And when claiming his electoral win earlier this month, Trump declared that "America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate."
53% : But he was still left reeling politically after attempting to privatize Social Security in 2005.
48% : In each of those cases, the election winner won a larger margin in the popular vote than Trump did.
43% : Despite that increasing clarity (or perhaps because of it), his allies have gone into overdrive in claiming a massive mandate for Republicans to do whatever it is Trump wants to do over the next four years.
34% : A survey conducted in the week after the election found only a small majority -- 53% total -- are picking up what Trump is putting down.
33% : But the blank check from voters that Trump is trying to cash is a forgery that can't be allowed to be deposited into our collective memory bank.
29% : It's a big bet on the idea that Trump (or Republicans generally) will face no repercussions for taking a hard turn to the right then flooring it to the far edges.
28% : Arguably, none of them had policy proposals -- proposed or enacted -- that did more to disrupt the status quo than what Trump has in the works.

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