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

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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