Newton’s third law is this: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. That’s physics.

It’s politics, too. In the Trump era, on just about every front, Sir Isaac’s principle applied.

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At the outset of Trump II, however, it didn’t. Most of us expected Trump’s second White House tenancy to be a lot like the first: Outrageous things said, notably fewer outrageous things done, and then obligatory pushback by Congress, the courts, media and — ultimately — public opinion. Between 2016 and 2020, Trump lost a lot more than he won. There was always an equal and opposite reaction — two impeachments, among other things. A criminal conviction, too.

Reincarnated Trump like tornado

American voters perhaps thought a second Trump term would again be like that: Proverbial bark worse than proverbial bite. They, we, were wrong. The reincarnated U.S. president has been like a tornado in a trailer park: He means what he says, and he does what he means.

On tariffs, on immigrants, on Ukraine, on Venezuela, on DEI, on gutting Obamacare, on vaccines and science-based health policy, on ICE, on foreign affairs, on using the power of the state to go after political critics:........

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