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Democrats and other critics see the former real estate developer and reality show personality as a threat to American democracy, a serial liar and a racist who mismanaged the novel coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than , people in the United States so far.

Now, with Trump trailing Biden in opinion polls, people are beginning to ask whether the fractures caused by one of the most polarizing presidencies in U. Most often she sees clients who have political rifts with siblings, parents or in-laws, as opposed to spouses. The two still spend time together, although she is now based in Vancouver, he in Alaska. Two of her grandchildren no longer speak to her because of her support for Democrat Hillary Clinton four years ago. She has also become estranged from other relatives and friends who are Trump supporters.

She is not sure those rifts with friends and family will ever mend, because each believes the other to have a totally alien value system. Democratic voter Rosanna Guadagno, 49, said her brother disowned her after she refused to support Trump four years ago. Last year her mother suffered a stroke, but her brother - who lived in the same California city as her mother - did not let her know when their mother died six months later.

She was told the news after three days in an email from her sister-in-law. Those symptoms might go underground for a while. But stress that causes an emotional upheaval, or an event that serves as too close a reminder of your earlier trauma can put you back into the original experiences.

There are many different forms your symptoms or behaviors might take. Again, these are very individual to you. Sometimes — as in physical or sexual abuse — trauma is quite obvious.

But there are many kinds of childhood trauma that you might not identify as trauma at all. Maybe you experienced a combination of these: neglect , loss of a parent , serious childhood illness , a learning disability , too many siblings , detached , emotionally unavailable , or anxious parents , your parents had childhood trauma.

Childhood neglect means that your emotional or physical needs were not attended to. This may be because your parents were overwhelmed and preoccupied. Whatever was the cause, your needs for nurturing and care went unseen, were pushed aside, or were greatly resented.

If yours did not, you experienced neglect. Losing a parent to death or abandonment early in your life is a trauma. No matter how nurtured you were by other relatives or your remaining parent, this kind of loss runs deep.

You needed or may still need a chance to mourn. Because you learned much too early that a needed loved one can suddenly go away or be taken away. You grow up afraid of loss. Even if you lost your parent in your early 20s, this is a vulnerable time. You may fear closeness because closeness and need signify possible loss.

Did you suffer a serious childhood illness? If so, you were likely isolated at home or hospitalized. This meant being removed from normal social activities and you probably felt lonely, maybe even worried about being different.

Maybe now you feel less socially confident because of it and find yourself not sure where you fit in. Hospitalization also means separation from parents, often traumatizing medical procedures, and frequently fear. This can leave you with anxiety that persists. If your attachments to your parents were secure and they were available and supportive, that helps. If not, you may now feel insecure in important relationships. When you feel powerless, you vote for someone who's promising to do everything differently and Trump indeed did that.

A presidency is also made by the people that the president appoints, and a great deal of experienced Republican hands were not invited to join the administration the first go round.

Over time, his administration has diminished to a band of loyalists who are really not very experienced and are ideologically uninterested in wise governance of the bureaucracy. What has happened within the bowels of the bureaucracy is going to be a slow slog to rebuild.

Saikrishna Prakash is a University of Virginia Law School professor focusing on constitutional law, foreign relations law and presidential powers. The last gasps of his administration are the most consequential, as he exerts a control over his most devoted followers and he's talking about running again. He forced people to consider what the presidency has become in a way that wasn't true I think either during the Bush or Obama administrations.

Issues like the 25th Amendment and impeachment hasn't been thought of since Bill Clinton, really. It's possible that people now when they think of the presidency are perhaps going to adopt a different stance going forward, knowing that someone like Trump could come along.

It's possible that Congress will delegate less to the president and take away some authority. The president has demonstrated that there's a constituency who's opposed to a lot of these trade deals and that there are people willing to vote for those who will either extricate us from these trade deals or "make them fairer". The president has also suggested that China has been taking advantage of the United States in ways that are deleterious to our economic and national security - and I think there's a consensus behind this view.

No one wants to be accused of being soft on China, whereas no one cares if you're "soft" on Canada, right? I think people are going to fall all over themselves to be tougher or at least say they're tougher on China. Domestically the president had a populous tone to him. It wasn't ever fully realised in his policies, but we see more Republicans adopting populist ideas. The 65 days that led to chaos at the Capitol. What does a deadly day mean for Trump's legacy?

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