Now It's History

Now It's History

How to wreck a presidency

Trump redefines the second-term curse

Richard Galant
Dec 05, 2025
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“The days are long, the weeks are long, the months are long,” wrote Ben Rhodes, in his memoir of life as a staffer in the Barack Obama White House. “But the years are short—one day you look up and realize you’re on the precipice of the final year of a presidential term.”

Many of the normal rules applying to the American presidency don’t seem to hold true…

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