"Even leaders of countries with strongly independent central banks have chafed against the orthodoxy" of current macroeconomic policy, Paul Poast writes.
Republican Party supporters stand out as the only partisans in favor of using the military for domestic law enforcement, to suppress protests, and to control immigration.
"Keeping the Strait of Hormuz open and keeping that region relatively calm is really important to manufacturers in Chicago and to all of us who have to pay for gas," Cécile Shea says.
The centrality of wealth in US politics under Trump is more a sign of continuity than change. His falling out with Elon Musk only underscores this point, Paul Poast writes.