Lessons Trump has learned: Washington will change radically come 2025

[mystery-ak]

Lessons Trump has learned: Washington will change radically come 2025
Chris Stewart, Christian Whiton

OPINION:

It appears increasingly likely that Washington is about to face a reality check it hasn’t seen since 2017. The changes will come quickly and cut deeply. The consequence will be that Washington will be guided by drastically different personnel and policies.

Though a Republican capture of the White House is not a foregone conclusion, the reality is that with seven months to go until the election, President Biden finds himself in a lamentable situation. This reality is best synopsized by the fact that former President Donald Trump now leads in averages of polls in all seven swing states that will determine who will be the next president. And Mr. Trump doesn’t need to win them all to win the presidency.

Of course, much can change between now and the election. But will it? At this point, public perceptions of the candidates seem to be as solid as concrete, with voters deeply familiar with the policies and styles of both men. To the extent that voters change their perceptions over the next seven months, the most likely catalyst will be Mr. Biden’s declining cognitive state.

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[Maj. Bill Martin]

To the extent that voters change their perceptions over the next seven months, the most likely catalyst will be Mr. Biden’s declining cognitive state.

Or a Trump conviction.

The next Trump presidency, however, will be radically different from his first administration. Mr. Trump has learned a lot of lessons. And they will be applied.

In legal terms, we'd call an unsupported assertion like that "ipse dixit".  I personally see literally zero evidence that he's learned anything.  For good or for bad, he's going to be the exact same guy he was in 2017 and in 2021, with all the same strengths and weaknesses.

[DefiantMassRINO]

The only thing Trump has learned is that he needs to find scummier scumbags to do his bidding.

[goatprairie]

Or a Trump conviction.

In legal terms, we'd call an unsupported assertion like that "ipse dixit".  I personally see literally zero evidence that he's learned anything.  For good or for bad, he's going to be the exact same guy he was in 2017 and in 2021, with all the same strengths and weaknesses.

ditto. It looks like Trump plans to double or triple down on his disastrous trade policies i.e. tariffs on everything that cost hundreds of thousands of American job losses and bankruptcies especially farmers.
Trump simply isn't very smart about economics. Protectionism might help a targeted sector while severely damaging jobs downstream.
Trump should do with business what conservatives urge Democrat presidents.....keep your ignorant hands off business.
Trump should be informed about Reagan's famous phrase concerning overbearing government i.e. the nine most terrible words in the English language....
"I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

[corbe]

   In my 70 years of Living on this Third Stone from the Sun, I've never witnessed a Man of my age change in ANY significant manner. 
   We are pretty set in our ways.  Witness my behavior and a few other Briefers here.