It’s been almost a full year since Donald Trump resumed the presidency. How’s that going for you? “President Trump is showing symptoms of an addiction to power,” wrote the Opinion contributor Thomas B. Edsall this week, noting the expanding list of countries the president thinks America should run or otherwise control. “The size and scope of his targets for subjugation are spiraling ever upward.” It’s been mentioned many times, but it’s worth repeating that one target is Greenland, a territory of Denmark, which is a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a bedrock of the post-World War II international system. Michelle Goldberg, in her Monday column, examined how the arguments against calling the administration fascist in 2025 have fallen away in 2026. We’re not there yet, she argued: “For now, we are trapped in the space between the liberal democracy most Americans grew up in and the dark, belligerent authoritarian state that our government seeks to impose.” Giving it a name helps predict where things are heading, she wrote. So who’s happy with the state of the country, more or less? Republicans. In an Opinion focus group with 11 Trump voters, the participants seem thrilled with how things are going. They said yes to tariffs, yes to deportations and yes to removing Venezuela’s president. But there were also hints of dissent about the aggressive tactics used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and this was before the killing of Renee Good in Minnesota. And there was one stark gap between the participants and the president. It’s on a topic that is emerging as one of the few Trump pursuits to unify a fractured country: America should keep its hands off Greenland. We hope you continue to read all of our Opinion coverage as we wade deeper into Trump’s second term.
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