Analysis | A dominant Trump looks to his second term to reshape, disrupt America

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : On the eve of his second inauguration, Donald Trump is politically stronger than ever, but huge tests await on immigration, the economy and more.
66% : At noon on Monday, Donald Trump will be sworn in for a second time as president of the United States.
66% : Politically, Trump holds a strong hand.
65% : Trump emerged triumphant with the help of a more disciplined and ruthless campaign operation than he enjoyed in his prior two campaigns.
63% : "But just in terms of sheer dominance, if you think about it as [him] being the most important figure in American politics over a 13-year stretch of time, this establishes Trump in the ballpark with Roosevelt -- and everyone in America has to reckon with that."The chapters in Trump's political life are distinct.
62% : He employed social media to stoke the public's fears with anti-immigrant rhetoric that divided rather than united and that brought to the surface lingering racism among some Americans.
59% : On the eve of his second inauguration, Trump is more imposing politically than he has ever been, as evidenced by the parade of business titans, foreign leaders and various well-wishers who have trooped to his Mar-a-Lago Club to pay respects or otherwise expressed their desire to work harmoniously with him.
56% : Gage, the author of a biography of J. Edgar Hoover, pointed to the future of the FBI, which Trump is determined to remake, as the best potential example of that confluence.
56% : In the end that support proved more powerful than judicial proceedings, though Trump was aided by a Supreme Court decision saying presidents have broad immunity for actions in office.
55% : Successes or failures on immigration, inflation and the economy, government efficiency and foreign policy will take far longer to measure.
51% : After a narrow popular vote victory and a more-than-comfortable margin in the electoral college, Trump begins his term with expectations far higher than they were eight years ago.
51% : They will begin to roll these out on Monday after Trump takes the oath with the hope that they will set a tone and direction that will rouse his supporters and intimidate his opposition.
49% : That moment opened the second chapter of his time in public life, which could be called "The fall and rise of Donald Trump."
48% : Whatever the ultimate judgments, Trump will remain a disrupter of the first rank.
44% : "Trump has used the transition period to populate the coming administration at a far faster clip than eight years ago.
44% : Trump has changed the country and its politics but is he the cause or the beneficiary of larger forces that exist even beyond the borders of the United States?
44% : After his history-making victory, Trump has a choice, which Gerstle posed this way: "Is this going to lead him to moderate some of his more radical, chaotic and authoritarian impulses for the sake of securing his place in history?
40% : Still, questions about Trump remain paramount.
39% : Assuming Trump, 78, serves out the full four years of his term, his longevity will rival that of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was elected in 1932 and served as president until his death in 1945.
35% : One reason could be a recognition among many who had warned loudly that Trump represented a clear threat to the future of the country that they were repudiated in November, that "whatever they were doing before didn't work," as Gage put it.
33% : His 2016 victory and subsequent defeat four years later led to speculation that Trump and Trumpism were an aberration in the country's political history.
32% : Gerstle said he sees them as preferring unfettered capitalism largely freed from government intrusion and a globalist sensibility.
15% : "Trump remains the lord of chaos in ways in which Roosevelt never was," said historian Gary Gerstle.
13% : Others, like Pete Hegseth, his choice for defense secretary; Tulsi Gabbard, selected as director of national intelligence; and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom Trump wants to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, have been criticized over their qualifications and backgrounds, raising doubts about Trump's judgment.

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