In the run-up to this
second Trump term, there were a lot of predictions, assumptions,
extrapolations, and truisms that turned out to be very wrong. One of the most
significant (and arguably among the most defensible) was that the money men would somewhat insulate us from the most extravagantly destructive of Trump’s
initiatives—in effect, that the wealthy club that holds most of the cards in
Washington would never allow Trump to torpedo the sou…