Trump's comeback will begin with a blast of executive power

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : Trump allowed himself a rare moment of introspection during his rally, touching on his place in history -- and the potential for his second term to leave a more robust and widely accepted legacy than his first.
71% : ""Starting tomorrow, I will act with historic speed and strength and fix every single crisis facing our country," Trump pledged at the euphoric victory party in Washington's Capital One Arena.
63% : "Someday, in 30 years from now, 40 years from now, 50 years from now, some of these young people are going to say, 'I remember Donald Trump.
61% : Trump warmed up for his second inauguration at a Sunday victory rally in Washington, DC, that culminated in a spectacle that would have astounded generations of his starchy collared predecessors, showing off his lock-kneed, jerky dad dance with the Village People and their late 1970s hit "YMCA" -- his political anthem.
58% : Donald Trump will flex one of the most intense and sweeping demonstrations of presidential power on the first day of any administration, seeking to fundamentally change America's course by sundown on Monday.
58% : Trump speaks at a rally at Capital One Arena in Washington, DC, on Sunday.
58% : And Trump scored two big wins even before he took office.
58% : Trump will benefit from the legitimacy conferred by his predecessor attending his inauguration -- a privilege he denied to Biden.
57% : But on Sunday, at his jubilant rally, Trump also raised expectations of transformational change in multiple areas.
56% : "We won," Trump said at his first rally in Washington since January 6, 2021, underscoring how sufficient voters were so desperate for a shake-up of government that they were ready to move on from his behavior after the 2020 election.
56% : "We are all going to be sworn in tomorrow, that's the way I look at it," Trump told his admirers.
50% : And Trump has built a new coalition with more young voters, minorities and working-class Americans than before.
47% : But Trump can hardly wait for summits with tyrants he most admires, Xi Jinping of China and Vladimir Putin of Russia.
46% : In this January 20, 2021 photo, Donald Trump and Melania Trump board Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
38% : Pete Marovich/Pool/Getty ImagesThe speech -- a classic of his "weave" genre of rhetoric -- blended demagoguery and comedy, searing anti-migrant rhetoric, warnings of impending world war, twisted facts, brashness and showmanship.
37% : But they could also create a climate of fear that rebounds against Trump and Republicans politically and threatens the civil rights of American citizens and immigrants.
37% : Furthermore, the authoritarian streak revealed in Trump four years ago is why so many Americans are horrified by his return.
33% : So, an impatient electorate might not give Trump much time.
31% : The rest of the world is also on edge: Trump has already sparked political crises from Canada to Panama to Denmark with expansionist rhetoric during the transition.
28% : Trump is already looking far beyond the tasks voters assigned himTrump won last year's election -- only four years after he was turned out of office for failing to revive a disgruntled, pandemic-hit nation -- because a plurality of voters was weary of high prices and a border crisis that Biden had denied, and they lost faith in the government's capacity to help them.
27% : On a frigid day that forced inside his swearing-in as the 47th president, Trump plans a blizzard of hardline executive actions on immigration, energy production, transgender athletes and the pardoning of January 6 rioters.
27% : Trump is no longer a populist, nationalist aberration in a long line of post-World War II presidents who all operated with similar assumptions about American's role in the world.
26% : Trump said he'd end the war in Ukraine, stop "chaos" in the Middle East, prevent World War III, crush violent crime in cities, and rebuild the police and the military.
22% : Then, Trump, at least for now, saved TikTok, which briefly shut down to comply with a federal ban imposed over fears the social media site could be manipulated by China.
13% : And unlike Trump in 2020, Vice President Kamala Harris accepted her defeat in a democratic election.

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