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From an outsider, objective perspective, Donald Trump as POTUS 47 appears to be pursuing several key objectives, with his actions reflecting a mix of personal, political, and ideological motivations:
1. Consolidating Personal Power & Avoiding Accountability
- Undermining institutions that could hold him accountable (DOJ, FBI, courts, media).
- Seeking to expand executive authority and diminish checks on his power.
- Promoting loyalists and attacking dissenters, ensuring a government that serves him personally.
- Using government power to punish political enemies.
- Pushing Christian Nationalism and right-wing populism (e.g., attacking "woke" institutions).
- Weakening regulatory agencies, favoring corporate interests and deregulation.
- Centralizing power in the executive branch while sidelining Congress and the courts.
- Silencing or ousting moderate/conservative opposition within the GOP.
- Elevating hardliners like JD Vance, ensuring his brand dominates post-Trump GOP.
- Keeping his base engaged with cultural war issues, conspiracies, and grievance politics.
- Undermining NATO and cozying up to authoritarian leaders.
- Weakening U.S. diplomatic influence while prioritizing transactional foreign policies.
- Encouraging nationalist and protectionist economic policies.
- Installing Supreme Court justices and federal judges aligned with his agenda.
- Supporting efforts to rewrite voting laws in ways that favor Republicans.
- Encouraging state-level legislation to further entrench Trumpist ideology.
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