[gpt5]

You'd very likely be wrong. People said the same thing in Trump's first cycle.

We tend to overestimate the short term effects due to polarization and the constant media cycle.

[kergonath]

What happens at the NIH and NSF has absolutely no parallel in his first term. Don’t kid yourself, this is not more of the same.

[daveguy]

Dumpty's first cycle still had a few sane people pulling his puppet strings.