The good news is that Trump doesn't seem to be following through on a lot of his proposed policies.

At this point I would be surprised if the wall is built. After enough meetings and people telling him it's a waste of money he'll find a way out. His supporters have demonstrated they are OK with Trump doing a 180 so they won't get in the way. Or maybe he'll do some symbolic something or other and claim victory.

As for coal, that's not coming back. Right wing politicians often talk about bringing coal back to save jobs, but they know it will never happen. They just use it to give coal workers hope and they will vote for them. Again, look for a couple of symbolic publicity stunts but not much else. After 4 years, the coal workers will finally understand that increasing jobs in coal was never really a possibility and it's probably a good thing if that lie ends.

The EPA stuff is concerning because the establishment Republicans will be on board. Look for environmental standards to get gutted. The only silver lining is that the environment is a huge issue for the younger crowed and will be a big black eye for the GOP in the future.

Trade deals? Who knows. They're complicated You could scrap all of them tomorrow and create similar ones the next day with a different name.

Immigration and health care will not be solved. The GOP is too fractured to reach an agreement with each other, and without that there's nothing to vote on. Let's just hope they don't do too much damage with counterproductive patchwork laws in order to placate their base.

As for the hacking, I think Trump will give Putin a pass. Look at it from his point of view. The hacking helped him and targeted his political rivals. I think his honest reaction is a shrug. If he doesn't think of himself as President of all Americans and defending all of us from foreign threats then each issue will be looked at in terms of personal benefit or harm to Trump. So that's going to suck. He'll use the investigations to bring up side points to attack his rivals.

The dangerous part is that it shows a willingness to, in some ways, cooperate with foreigners as long as they go after Trump's critics. He's showing the world how he will treat them, and so far it looks to be pretty flattering. Look for that to come into play in the future in unpredictable ways.

Trump says a lot of dumb stuff, but it's the establishment Republicans who actually vote a lot of dumb things into law. Who knows what they will do, but it will most likely be insane in some way. We know they are targeting Planned Parenthood and we know they will try to outlaw abortion. We already talked about the EPA.

Looks like they are trying to gut the ethics office and by playing the "we don't know for sure that 3 million illegals didn't vote for Clinton" they feel the internet conspiracy crowd is officially a voting block and will play to them. The culture war will continue, including more bathroom laws, and the left will still have no idea the right is at war with them,.

The budget will most likely gut taxes, and that will create a budget shortfall. That will be the justification for gutting social services and the first salvo will probably be something about illegals/foreigners using the services. Look for them to publicize anecdotes of abuse to turn the public against safety net programs overall. The bubble makes it easy.

This will be replicated on the state level. That's where education is too fat of a peach to pass up. That will get cut to help get the books closer to balancing. They'll add in increased consumption taxes that disproportionately impact the poor while keeping the tax cuts for the rich in place. Income disparity will accelerate.

More GOP state congressmen will pass laws to change the system to structurally benefit Republicans. They'll expand their practice of stripping powers away from city mayors, especially in states where large cities have Democratic mayors. Look for them to continue to hit the courts hard and stack them with their own. Voter suppression laws will continue but the courts are pushing back and we should expect to see more wins there.

But then again, I could be wrong.