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What Was So Different This Time About Trump’s Election?

In the weeks before the 2016 Trump Electoral College victory, Donald Trump was polling between 35 and 40 percent.
He would average only about 41% approval over his tumultuous four-year tenure.

Nooneknowswhatliesaheadoverthenextfouryears.Butfornow,Trumpalreadypollswellover50%approval. HisinaugurationinafewweekswilllikelynotresembleTrump’s2016ceremony. Inthe2016-7transition,Democratic-affiliatedinterestsrancommercialsurgingelectorstobecome“faithless,”andthusillegallytorejecttheirstates’popularvotesandinsteadelecttheloser,HillaryClinton. MassivedemonstrationsmetTrumponInaugurationDay. Inlessthanfourmonthsafterassumingthepresidency,SpecialCounselRobertMuellerwasappointedtoinvestigatethehoaxofRussiancollusion. Thatwasted22-month,$40millioninvestigationfoundnocollusion,butdidderailthefirsttwoTrumpyears. WhatfollowedthecollusionrusewasaconsistentefforttounderminetheTrumppresidency—twosubsequentimpeachments,thelaptop“disinformation”hoax,theCOVID-19nationwidelockdown,andnewss