Americans voted for Trump. Did they vote for this?

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(CNN) —& President Donald Trump has hit his second term at a full sprint, marking each day with a flurry of activity meant to rebrand the country and remake the government.It’s been a dizzying onslaught of activity that may have people’s heads spinning. Did all of the people who voted for Trump really want all of this?On Thursday, it was a promise to impose new tariffs on foreign automobiles despite a spike in inflation data. Inflation and the economy, if you read the polling data, were two of the main drivers behind Trump’s election win. Tariffs, if you believe most economists, are going to make things more expensive, not less.Trump’s campaign promises to impose tariffs and to bring down prices were contradictory, and he has decided to focus on tariffs over inflation, at least to start.He has also used his power to make changes that were never mentioned on the campaign trail, like renaming the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America.” Most Americans, 71%, oppose the name change, according to a recent& Marquette University& poll.Add together Trump’s many large policy goals — mass deportation, a much smaller bureaucracy, a why-bother attitude toward climate change — and he could...

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