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Postmaster: Send address change to News India Times, 1655 Oak Tree Toad, Suite 155 Edison, NJ 08820-2843 Annual Subscription: United States: $28 Disclaimer: Parikh Worldwide Media assumes no liability for claims/ assumptions made in advertisements and advertorials. Disclaimer:The views and opinions expressed on this page are those of the authors and Parikh Worldwide Media does not officially endorse, and is not responsible or liable for them. Opinion News India Times (May 3, 2025 - May 9, 2025) May 9, 2025 3 Is Trump Breaking Up HisWinning Coalition? P resident Donald Trump has embarked on a multifaceted campaign to rapidly deport not just undocumented im- migrants, but foreign students and green-card holders as well, while at the same time testing the limits of his constitutional authority by invoking 18th-century laws to airlift migrants to a foreign prison. Voters so far appear to be souring on his handling of immigration in response - and there is reason to believe it might pose a unique threat to his party’s current coalition. While Trump warned that newer migrants were “poisoning the blood of the country,” the data indicates that naturalized immigrant voters were a key part of Trump’s return to theWhite House, accelerating a trend that began during his losing 2020 campaign. The Cooperative Election Study (CES) suggests that naturalized citizens sharply swung toward Trump in 2024, giving him 46 percent of the two-party vote - his best-ever perfor- mance with them, by some distance. Survey estimates are often prone to wide error bands, but actual election results substantiate the theory that Trump made extremely significant gains with these voters. Immigrant-heavy areas in New Jersey and NewYork, two states with the largest swings toward Trump in 2024, rocketed further to the right than areas with fewer immigrants did. There are some signs this change was quite broad, as well: Republican gains were similar in immigrant-heavy areas with Lakshya Jain, Max McCall - Continued On Page 4 The Roots Of Trump’s ‘I Alone Can Fix It’ Presidency E ven for President Donald Trump, the trade war is an act of astonishing hubris. When nearly all economists, the markets and the public are registering their belief that a course of action will harm the country, it takes a lot of confidence in one’s own ideas to persist anyway. Yet viewed from a certain angle, the tariffs are exactly the kind of thing Americans always say we want from government officials. Trump campaigned on raising tariffs to revive manu- facturing and force other countries to treat the United States better, and he is following through on his promise without much worry about the short-term consequences - including for his own poll numbers. If we dislike the results, perhaps we should reconsider this popular conception of how presidents should govern. That conception traces back to Trump’s predecessorWood- rowWilson, who explicitly rejected the Founders’ version of the separation of powers because it stifled government action. “No living thing can have its organs offset against each other as checks,” he wrote as an academic. “There can be no successful government without leadership.” That leadership had to be sup- plied by the president, because alone in the government, “the nation as a whole has chosen him” and “his is the only national voice in affairs.” We have gotten so used to theseWilsonian notions that we do not appreciate how novel they once were. When the Federalist Papers refer to “leaders,” it is almost always negatively, as a syn- onym for “demagogues.” In these writings, the president’s job consists in large part of executing the will of Congress, which is to say the consensus of a large group of people who represent Americans in their great variety. Now, hardly any eyebrows raise as Trump aide Stephen Miller explains that because “a president is elected by the whole American people,” he embodies “the whole will of democracy” and it is up to him to impose that will on the government. Modern presidents have increasingly reached for utopian rhetoric to match this exalted self-image. Barack Obama promised “a complete transformation of our economy” and urged American citizens to work together with the same unity of purpose as the SEALs who brought Osama bin Laden to justice. (And who operated under the direction of guess who.) Trump’s boastfulness - during the 2016 campaign, he said he would “make every dream you ever dreamed for your country come true” - adds a note of parody to the style. The more obsessively U.S. politics focuses on presidential activism, though, the worse it seems to work for the country. Recent decades have given us many more examples of ambi- tious initiatives that backfired on the presidents who launched them than ones that worked well. The IraqWar sank the George W. Bush presidency. A grand overhaul of the health-care system under Obama cost his party’s candidates in several elections. That streak ended only when Republicans damaged themselves by trying their own bold counterreform. The great accomplish- ment of Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office was an “American Rescue Plan”- marvel at the self-importance - that arguably contributed to the inflation that undid his administration. The glorification of a president’s first 100 days originates with Franklin D. Roosevelt, who saw himself asWilson’s heir. It was unjustified then, too. The most ambitious policy of those days, the National Industrial Recovery Act, tried to end the Great Depression by cartelizing the economy. It failed and was eventually struck down as unconstitutional. But at least in the 1930s, the president felt compelled to work his will through the legislature. We are now at the end of the first 100 days ofWilson’s latest heir, who recently told The Atlantic, “I run the country and the world.” If the country were ever again to see a steady, prudent executive in action, it might find it a pleasant change. But it is unlikely to have that chance if every president looks in the mirror, gilded or not, and sees greatness. Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review and a fellow at the American Enter- prise Institute. - Special to TheWashington Post By Ramesh Ponnuru PHOTO:TheWashington Post PHOTO:Demetrius Freeman/TheWashington Post President Donald Trump signs an executive order at the White House on April 23.