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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Agreed, but the real damage was always going to be by judicial appointments.  Very few presidents actually get an agenda off the ground.  Trump will appoint more Fed Soc. judges sliding this country further and further backwards.