close Cancel email WhatsApp link share Share bookmark SaveWith barely 12 weeks until the US midterm elections, commentators are looking forward to the lame-duck phase of Donald Trump’s presidency. Power tends to ebb away from the White House during an administration’s final years, particularly if – as often happens – the president’s party does badly in November. He then spent 10 years helping Trump to remake the GOP as a race-baiting, xenophobic and bigoted party committed to “America First” and “Make America Great Again”. Unlike in 2021, we have the four years of the Biden presidency to draw upon in determining what works (and what doesn’t) in the effort to de-Trumpify America. Historians have written countless books about the forces in American society and culture that engineered Trump’s rise to the White House.