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Writing at the completion of the first year of Trump's second term, Brian Doherty wrote that "Trump wielded state power to punish enemies and reward friends, sent the military into city streets under bogus pretenses and over the objections of local elected officials, authorized masked cops to enforce 'papers, please' policies on U.S. citizens moving in public (the loosing of such largely undisciplined shock troops in American cities where they are not wanted has now predictably resulted in the unconscionable murders of two citizens), ordered the serial murder of suspected drug smugglers, and disrupted the global economy by making Americans pay sharply increased taxes on imported goods, for starters." While some of Trump's policies have been disallowed by the courts or revised due to public outcry, he's done exactly what he promised he would do, with predictably disastrous and unpopular results. NEXT: Three Mistakes That Made Donald Trump Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason and host of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie .
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