The Conventional, Reversible Trump Agenda

Published: Jan. 18, 2018, 12:34 p.m.

Slate is running a weeklong series on President Trump\u2019s first year in office. Read Jamelle Bouie\u2019s companion essay about the only promise Trump has kept from his inaugural address. After eight years of a Democratic administration, the new Republican president came in with a lightning-strike agenda. He confirmed reliable, career conservatives to the Cabinet and stocked the federal judiciary with young, right-leaning judges.