During the election season, I had Trump pegged almost entirely incorrectly.
I believed that he was (a) not genuine about any of his campaign promises and that he would govern as a leftist (b) not competent to make political deals because they don't operate like business deals and (c) likely to be too difficult to work with to get any sort of traction in the legislature and thus too likely to try to do everything with executive action. I also believed the appeal he had with his supporters during the primaries was rooted in a new strand of isolationism and populism and not in core American principles of generosity, liberty, and faith.
It, so far, looks like (a) he was deathly genuine about his campaign promises, at least insofar as he can accomplish them given the system in which he is operating (b) entirely capable of sizing up his political position and applying business acumen to cutting directly to what the best move for him is, within the law and (c) very difficult to work with but also the BMOC. He grabbed the GOP by the man-berries during the primary fight, then he grabbed HRC and her campaign team by the hair, and now he is grabbing congress, holding down their heads against those little desks they use on the hill, and demanding that they say uncle. I way...way underestimated his alpha status. Oh...and he has the media sniffing its own behind in an endless tailspin like the silliest golden retriever.
The problem is...
We actually aren't supposed to be run like a business with that sort of efficiency because one man with too much ambition can seriously endanger our representative framework and separated and limited powers. If he is too successful, he will establish a precedent by which our entire way of life could be destroyed by an equally effective crusader from the wrong political strain. And if he fails, he will set back the causes he champions for fifty years and likely destroy the Republican brand.
The media's coordinated assault on him will either work or it will not. So far, most Americans don't seem to be taking the media narrative as gospel, but I think what could happen is that even the folks who generally support him may get really tired of being hated by their friends and watching protests in the cities nonstop as the press screams about chaotic white house and capital hill in disarray. Because one thing about Americans is...we like peace. We got tired of fighting the war on terror until the terrorist attacks got frequent enough that we decided not fighting it was not bringing us peace.We got tired of fighting in Vietnam and watching the protests over it and the damage it did to our boys. We get tired of political melodrama...and we seem to always self-correct whenever one party gets too much power. If the story of Trump's presidency begins to look like it disturbs the peace too much and makes life hard to live for his defenders...we'll probably forget how badly we wanted Washington to change and long for the days when there wasn't constant scandal from the press, riots in the cities, and bluster from the president.