President Donald Trump and his MAGA agenda are not shy when it comes to bending conservative norms. In his second term, states’ rights, once a rallying cry for conservatives, are under pressure. Trump has strong-armed private companies and universities, and is testing the approach to free speech, while showing flexible foreign policy when it comes to adversaries like China. This Washington Examiner series, Upend the Orthodoxy, will take an in-depth look at all of these.
In his first term, President Donald Trump tried to ban TikTok.
Now, he’s fighting to save it.
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The reversal marks just one example of how Trump is rewriting Republicans’ decades-old playbook on countering Beijing’s influence in the United States and abroad.
Like in his first term, the president has stocked his inner circle with
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