Last year in office will define legacy
... nine historians .. largely agreed that Trump's final year in office -- mainly, his failure to properly respond to the pandemic and his incitement of a mob of rioters at the US Capitol -- has done more to cement Trump's legacy than the first three years of his presidency ...
Trump has set himself apart for his style of communication, including freewheeling speeches and speaking off the cuff in an informal manner. He threw out personal insults, cursed publicly, and regularly repeated mistruths. He used Twitter to govern and issue directives, appeal directly to his supporters, and spread conspiracies. He amplified the cultural wars, stoked racial divisions, and emboldened right wing extremism.
He vilified judges and courts for rulings he disliked, railed against the "deep state" and worked to undermine US intelligence agencies, attacked his own Cabinet members, and waged war against the oversight of his own administration by firing agency watchdogs. A recent directive from Trump makes it easier to push out career officials from the federal government and replace them with loyal political appointees.
"The Trump legacy is an exhausted, divided, bruised country with strained institutions," Timothy Naftali, a presidential historian for CNN, said ...
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/17/politics/trump-legacy-historians/index.html
