我们的专栏作家贾梅尔·布伊写道，特朗普政府“与其说关心通过法律，不如说更在意塑造一种对公民社会的主导形象，无论是否存在持久的解决方案”。总统满心想着要召唤出一个巩固的威权国家的形象。
The Trump administration “is less concerned with passing laws than it is with projecting an image of dominance over civil society, whether or not there is a durable settlement,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes. The president is preoccupied with summoning the image of a consolidated authoritarian state.