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President-elect Donald Trump will enter the White House for his second, nonconsecutive term when he is inaugurated on January 20, 2025, and he has promised sweeping and consequential action to reshape America from day one of his new administration.
Among Trump’s plans are mass deportations, resuming border wall construction, ending birthright citizenship, boosting energy production, and imposing new tariffs.
He also aims to end the Ukraine war, pardon January 6 rioters, and stop trans athletes competing in women’s sports, among other issues that will face fierce political and legal resistance from his opponents.
As we look ahead to the new year, Newsweek put this question to a range of experts: How will Trump change America in 2025? Here’s what they said.
Rogers M. Smith, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
America faces three possible paths in 2025. Donald Trump may do what he has promised in terms of high tariffs, mass deportations, and a unilateralist foreign policy focused on deal-making. It may work well, and then he will end the year in triumph.
Or he may do what he has promised, quickly find it is not working, and shift directions, fostering uncertainty.
Finally, he may do what he has promised and persist despite skyrocketing prices, shortages of goods and services, and rising violence over detainments and deportations.
Then in 2026 Democrats will mobilize and win massive midterm electoral victories, and Trump will become an embattled lame-duck president. Liberal scholars like me expect the third scenario, but in fairness, Trump has often proved us wrong.
Sanford Levinson, University of Texas Law School; Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin
The quick answer borrows from Zhou en-Lai’s apparent answer to Henry Kissinger’s question as to whether Zhou thought the French Revolution had been a success: “It’s too early to tell.”
But I’m also willing to suggest that Donald Trump has already fundamentally changed America in 2024 by apparently normalizing ideas and people who were correctly viewed as unacceptably extremist, even dangerous, prior to the election.
I expect ever more “normalization” to occur, which, paradoxically, means that long-established norms of American politics will lie broken in the mud of a new conception of how we conduct ourselves as a polity and conceive of appropriate leaders.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump hugs an American flag as he arrives at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center on February 24, 2024 in National Harbor,…
Former U.S. President Donald Trump hugs an American flag as he arrives at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center on February 24, 2024 in National Harbor, Maryland. Trump has promised to make substantial changes to America from day one of his second term in January 2025.
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John McLaughlin, CEO and Partner, McLaughlin & Associates
President Trump will restore the values and priorities of the majority of working Americans over the failed global establishment elites who exploited Americans for their benefit.
President Trump’s second election was a historic victory like no other in our almost 250 years of democracy.
His first 2016 term was derailed by COVID, but after four years of failure by the corrupt Biden administration, President Trump’s 2024 win was a victory by a diverse and broad coalition of Americans.
President Trump will restore patriotism, American exceptionalism, grow our economy, secure our borders, keep us safe, and bring peace through American strength.
President Trump has made political history. Now he must succeed in policy to be a great president and assure America remains as great as its first 250 years.
Andrea Louise Campbell, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, MIT
The GOP has remade itself as a working-class party, yet remains the political home of small-government conservatives and economic elites. Trump’s presidency threatens to blow open the tensions between the party’s voter base and its plutocratic policy demanders.
The donor class wants extension of the 2017 tax cuts and entitlement reform. Among the public, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was one of the most unpopular policy initiatives of recent times; Social Security in its present form remains one of the most popular government programs and a sacrosanct contract between government and workers.
Which forces will prevail in the titanic struggle between the party’s electoral base and its big-ticket donors?
Will the party thread the needle with policy designs that secure the profound changes the privileged want but obscure the toll to its electoral base? Will voters realize they have been betrayed?
Stay tuned.
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