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Back in June 2015, it wasn’t easy to pin down President Donald Trump’s politics.
The celebrity businessman spent most of his public life discussing money, rather than policy. He hopped between parties, voted irregularly, and never truly committed to a single ideology. No surprise, then, that Americans weren’t sure what box to put him in.
Four years in the White House changed that. And since his return to the White House earlier this year, Trump has doubled down on a hard-right agenda—rolling back protections for LGBTQ+ people, cutting deals that benefit the wealthy, dismantling DEI initiatives, and pushing policies that