In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson issued Executive Order 11246 that brought America decades of “de facto racial quotas under the euphemism ‘affirmative action,’” Pepperdine University visiting professor Steven Hayward wrote in the New York Post. Just when America thought it would never go away, Hayward noted, Trump revoked it in his first week.

It can be difficult to comprehend Donald Trump in his totality — how he has both bent history to his will and failed to do the kind of damage the left always imagines is imminent. He has dominated our politics now for almost a full decade,