Hugh Linehan: America's system of checks and balances will be severely tested by Trump's presidency

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : As a candidate, Trump has been adept at shape-shifting for different audiences.
46% : He openly scoffed at Florida governor Ron De Santis's anti-woke crusades during this year's primaries and successfully distanced himself from hardline anti-abortion policies in the general election.
39% : Or was he just a grifter who, despite his inflammatory anti-establishment rhetoric, ended up governing as a conventional low-tax, low-regulation Republican? Eight years ago, Trump was laughably unprepared for power.
32% : The objectives of the right-wing think tanks include gutting social programmes such as Medicare and Medicaid that Trump has shown little appetite for touching.
14% : The three-seat Republican buffer in the Senate could also prove vital if one of the (increasingly rare) anti-Trump Republicans, such as Mitt Romney, decides to oppose a particular measure, as John McCain did when he scuppered Trump's attempt to kill Obamacare during his last presidency.
11% : It is worth remembering that the Harris campaign enlisted a coalition that ran from Bernie Sanders to Liz Cheney to argue that Trump was a threat to American foundational institutions.

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