Jonathan Lemire: “President Trump has mused about being the most powerful man in history. He has started wars and remade his nation’s economic and strategic relationships with the world. He has demanded, and largely received, total obedience from his party. He has dominated the national discourse like no president has before, and he’s tried to recast his nation’s capital—and even its history—to his liking. He’s everywhere. He has said he believes that there are ‘no limits’ to his power.”
“But if that was ever truly the case, it certainly isn’t now. Recent months have delivered a reckoning for Trump, who has crashed hard against some real limits.”
Trump’s power has always depended on the belief that resistance is futile. Once lawmakers begin testing that assumption, the limits can appear very quickly.
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