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For all of his dystopian rhetoric, by many traditional metrics, the America that Trump will inherit from Biden is actually in better shape than that bequeathed to any newly elected president since Bush came into office in 2001. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/u — Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt.bsky.social) 2025-01-05T15:08:03.902Z Why not three months ago? Oh, I think we know. Open thread below read more

This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday openly mused about using U. S. military might to retake the Panama Canal and to claim Greenland, while threatening to use economic pressure to force 40 million Canadians into seeing their country demoted to an American state.

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As we conservatives are painfully aware though, where does that get us? A big fat nowhere.