As the tumultuous first year of Donald Trump ’s second term as president approaches its end, it’s difficult to assess his successes and his failures. For one thing, his governing strategy has been all but unprecedented. Most presidents who have just won an election are forced to choose whether they want to cash in their political chips to get big things done or build up political capital for future elections. Trump has chosen the first fork in the road with an audacious policy agenda and massive expansions of presidential power. But at the same time, he’s trying to make future elections more promising not by improving his lagging popularity but by rigging the landscape via aggressive gerrymandering and efforts to manipulate voting rules . Because nearly all his power grabs have dra

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