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Jan 24, 2026
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Joel Kotkin

Trump purged America’s Leftist toxins. Now hubris will be his downfall

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Joel Kotkin
Joel Kotkin
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Joel Kotkin
Summary

From ending DEI madness and net zero to securing the border, he’ll leave the US stronger. But his excesses are inciting a Left-wing backlash

Summary

From ending DEI madness and net zero to securing the border, he’ll leave the US stronger. But his excesses are inciting a Left-wing backlash

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Americans, like much of the world, are getting tired of Donald Trump. Like an old actor who still insists on playing romantic leads, he has managed to become a caricature of himself, a blustering, overweight, sometimes barely coherent one-man wrecking crew. A usually sympathetic conservative journalist, writing in the Wall Street Journal, recently described his behaviour as “incontinent”.

Yet as insane as many of Trump’s failings may be, he has served as something of an enema, purging the excesses of his predecessors. Gone are a host of moronic Biden policies, from net zero and DEI to transgender and racial madness. If judged by what he has eliminated, Trump deserves no small amount of thanks.

Read the full article at The Telegraph.

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