Trump's Mandate to Overreach?

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By Mort Kondracke
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The people have spoken in this week’s election. But if Donald Trump does (or tries) all he’s promised (or threatened), he’ll suffer the same repudiation he suffered in 2018 and 2020. With likely full GOP control of Congress and a vice grip on the Executive Branch, he could do a lot of damage in two years and even more in four, but there will be election pay-backs and boomerangs.

In his post-election speech to supporters, Trump claimed to have won “an unprecedented and powerful mandate.” To do what? Stage a massive deportation of illegal migrants, which is bound to mistakenly ensnare legal migrants? Such detainees may be stored in ugly holding pens before being expelled, prompting Hispanic voters to regret their near-majority support for Trump.

Trump has been indicted for serious crimes—including trying to overthrow the 2020 election and inciting the Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol—but now, as president, he will escape accountability. He’s promised to fire his chief federal prosecutor, Jack Smith.

He promised to “drain the swamp” of thousands of federal bureaucrats whom he thinks joined the “grownups” in his first administration in curbing his worst instincts. As president he fired one top aide after another. Now he plans to revive his 2020 executive order allowing him to replace the bureaucrats with personal loyalists and toadies who’ll serve his political and financial interests ahead of those of the American people. That invites serious corruption scandals, which will hurt his approval ratings.

https://www.postalley.org/2024/11/08/trumps-mandate-to-overreach/