From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free Expression with Jerry Baker.

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I'm Jerry Baker, editor at large of the journal.

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Well, this week we are just a little over a week into the second Trump administration.

And I think it's fair to say that Donald Trump has hit the ground running with a slew of executive orders,

travel across the country already and some interesting conversations in California, the scene of the wildfires.

His nominations are speeding through the Senate for the most part.

We may see some more this week.

And of course, he has been issuing not just those executive orders, but all kinds of interesting

policy statements to America and around the world, including upping the ante on his threat,

shall we say, to take Greenland for the United States. So it's been a extraordinarily busy

first week, and doubtless there is more to come. You could certainly not argue that Donald Trump and this

new Republican administration is very serious about tackling the key issues of immigration.

Of the DEI, his assault on diversity, equity, inclusion has been a major feature of what he's been

doing and we can expect a lot more policies to come. But what about the politics of it all?

Donald Trump was elected, as we all know, with a win in the popular vote and, of course, a

comfortable win in the electoral college. He has a small majority for the Republican Party

in both houses of Congress. What does it all mean for the politics? Are our politics being

transformed by Donald Trump's second terms? What are his chances of making this a real political success for the medium term? Well, I'm pleased to say this week

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