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Trump's 'most ambitious project' has completely failed: analysis

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President Donald Trump and his allies returned to the White House with grand plans in mind, but according to a new analysis from the New York Times , his "most ambitious project" has completely failed , which actually leaves the country in a much "less dangerous place" than it seemed a year ago. Jonathan Rauch is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Peter Wehner is a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum who also worked as a speechwriter for the three GOP presidents prior to Trump, emerging as a major critic of his political agenda even before he secured the Republican nomination in 2016. On Saturday, the pair published a new op-ed for the Times, detailing the extent to which the second Trump administration has "finally lost the plot." Trump, they explained, has accomplished an alarming amount in his second term and done much to alter the public perception, but now, as his power appears to be dwindling , it can be said that his grandest plans for fundamentally reshaping Ameri