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In the wake of President Donald Trump\u2019s peace deal with Iran, many have characterized the agreement as a \u201csurrender<\/u>.\u201d Now, a leading conservative publication has not only agreed with that appraisal, but says that the second year of Trump\u2019s second term has so far been \u201cdefined\u201d by three \u201csignificant retreats.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This is according to National Review editor-in-chief Rich Lowry<\/u>, who on Tuesday published a humiliating assessment of Trump\u2019s performance, writing, \u201cPresident Trump has been musing about whether he\u2019s the most powerful man in world history, and judging by the results lately, the answer is definitely \u2018no.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n

While the technological tools at Trump\u2019s disposal would have amazed great leaders of the past, as Lowry notes, Trump\u2019s power \u201cisn\u2019t defined by, say, the precision and explosive punch of the Tomahawk missile. As the leader of a constitutional republic that disperses power and depends ultimately on democratic consent, Trump is operating under constraints that routinely blunt his ambitions.\u201d Because of these and other limitations, \u201cif the theme of the first year of his second term was aggression on all fronts, his second year has so far been defined by significant retreats.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first was in Minneapolis, where Trump surged DHS forces. As Lowry explains, \u201cWhen the operation was met by fierce opposition from city and state leaders and resistance in the streets, the Trump administration steeled itself for a gargantuan test of wills \u2014 before Trump, realizing he was losing the battle of political optics, sent Tom Homan to Minneapolis to unwind the operation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, \u201cthe Department of Justice settled a $10 billion suit against the IRS by Donald Trump over the leak of his tax returns. The department agreed to create a $1.8 billion fund for the compensation of victims of Democratic lawfare, a slush fund for his allies, presumably including January 6 rioters. Faced with adverse legal rulings and opposition in the Senate, the administration abandoned the scheme that it had initially touted as a means to \u2018right the wrongs that were previously done while ensuring this never happens again.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Finally, \u201cof course, Trump signed a cease-fire with Iran that wasn\u2019t close to the \u2018unconditional surrender\u2019 that he had once demanded. The 14-point agreement included more American than Iranian concessions, and Trump admitted that the Iranian closure of the Strait of Hormuz had forced his hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each of these instances involved specific intentions that Trump abandoned, and according to Lowry, they were also tinged by \u201coverreach that displayed a heedlessness borne of hubris. Trump had already driven down overall migration when he surged into Minneapolis; already pardoned the January 6 rioters when his DOJ created the weaponization fund; and already struck a punishing blow against the Iranian nuclear program via Midnight Hammer when he launched Operation Epic Fury.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Lowry notes, Trump \u201cfashioned a team that is loath to tell him \u2018no,\u2019\u201d but he is still \u201csubject to checks from the other branches of government and, even more, from routine political pressures. There was nothing that formally compelled him to remove DHS forces from Minneapolis, or to relieve the military pressure on Iran, both of which were within his legitimate powers. It was the poor polling, and the potential damage to Republican prospects in the midterms, that obliged Trump to declare victory and go home.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the end, concludes Lowry, the very democratic forces Trump attempts to circumvent have driven his \u201cyear of retreats.\u201d<\/p>\n

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