Trump's first term was constrained by 'Normie Republicans' who warned him off bad decisions and narrowed his scope of options, whereas Trump 2.0 is surrounded entirely by absolute loyalists whose mission is to enact whatever Trump wants rather than push back on it.
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“the first term whatever successes there were were largely the result of the fact that Trump didn't know what he was doing and was constrained by more sort of Normie Republicans [1:32]”
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