It would be difficult to identify anything that Trump has done in his first sixty days to improve the lot of the struggling workers who voted for him. No matter. The base is thrilled that he is inflicting pain on blue America, the enemy, on a daily basis. For now, it seems, that is enough.
Boris Johnson’s signature initiative was called “leveling up.” Trump’s is more like “leveling down.” And the base calls his opponents Marxists!
The real question here is whether the base will remain happy if, a year or two from now, the economy is staggering under the weight of Trump’s tariffs and deportations. Do cultural victories take precedence over economic failures? My best guess is that they do for the base, but not for the country as a whole.