“The first term everybody was fighting me,” Donald Trump said before Christmas. “In this term, everybody wants to be my friend.”
He has a point. Eight years ago, Trump faced an angry protest movement, which flooded Washington and resisted his shortlived “Muslim ban” in the days after his inauguration. This time there is barely a peep. The opposition’s mood has switched from outraged to depressed.
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Financial Times
Edward Luce is the Washington columnist and commentator for the Financial Times. He writes about American politics and the economy.
