The hope of last resort amongst the chattering classes was that having won the election, Donald Trump would relax into the pomp of the ceremony. He would shift his positions to those of the establishment; he would kiss the feet of Xi Jinping and hand over his twitter feed to some faceless staffer who could begin pumping out dull bromides that function as odes to his voter base.
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