People overestimate the threat of reactionary anti-institutionalism in the first term, but underestimate it in the second term. 

The first Trump term threatened to be a wrecking ball but landed like a hand-swung sledgehammer in just a few places. The worst damage (SCOTUS capture) was dealt by McConnell’s senate and Federslist society, not Trump. 

The second term looks like a moderated, mellowed rubber mallet but will likely land like a wrecking ball.

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