Trump foes are making risky bets that his deep changes to US policy are fleeting and reversible

Published September 19, 2025 5:30am ET



A hundred days into President Donald Trump’s second, nonconsecutive term, an Economist magazine cover was already in countdown mode to its end, with the headline, “Only 1,361 Days To Go.”

The accompanying article was a full-throated defense of “neo-liberalism,” with an embrace of free trade, the U.S. dollar as the world’s default currency, and a broadly internationalist foreign policy —basically, a move away from the nationalist-populist push of Trump’s MAGA movement over the past decade.

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