President Donald Trump‘s agenda is quickly taking shape in the weeks since he returned to power vowing to end social liberalism and usher in a new era of American prosperity. Through a shock-and-awe flurry of executive orders and other actions, Trump started a massive crackdown on illegal immigration, withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization and Paris climate accord, issued sweeping pardons to the rioters charged with participating in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and began the process of dismantling federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Welcome to Trump’s self-described “golden age of America.”
The administration’s early moves have put Washington—and the rest of the world—on notice that Trump is determined to turn his campaign promises into reality. Anyone doubting his sense of mission would do well to remember Trump’s belief that divine intervention helped him survive an assassin’s bullet and reclaim the White House. “My life was saved …