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Ezra Klein

By Ezra Klein

Opinion Columnist

Times Opinion asked our columnists to reflect on key moments during President Trump’s first 100 days that were revealing about the administration or that reshaped the country. Read Ezra’s Klein’s essay below and the others here.

I’m going to break the boundaries of the prompt and say that the most important — or at least most predictive — day of Donald Trump’s second term came before it even began: It was July 15, 2024, the day he announced that JD Vance was his choice for vice president.

The runner-ups were Marco Rubio and Doug........

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