After 100 days, Trump has destroyed Trumpism

In the 2024 election, Donald Trump eked out a narrow victory, by 1.5 percentage points nationally, the lowest popular vote margin in 56 years, since Richard Nixon's wafer-thin win by 0.7 points in 1968. Trump claimed he had won an enormous historic mandate to impose a counterrevolution. "The American people have given us a mandate, a mandate like few people thought possible," Trump boasted on 6 March in his address to the Congress. His election rested on two principal issues, immigration and inflation. He demonized immigrants ("poisoning the blood" of the country), raised the bogeyman of transgender people, and racialized…