Trump’s legacy will be defined by the Supreme Court and the Middle East

The Age of Trump, like the Jacksonian Era long ago, will only be fully understood decades after its conclusion — if ever.

The present era will be dated as beginning when then-candidate Donald Trump came down the escalator on June 16, 2015. No one can predict its end, as Trump will have an outsize role in the GOP even when he leaves office in 2029, and his nominees to the Supreme Court and lower federal courts will be decisive in restoring the originalist understanding of the Constitution for decades thereafter.

Even now, however, it is an excellent guess to say that the Trump Era will primarily be about his impact on the court at home and on the Middle East and the Pacific abroad. In Trump’s first term, his decisive accomplishment on the world stage was the Abraham Accords. His three appointees to the court were his major accomplishment at home.

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