Donald Trump’s rise to the US presidency, which he held from 2017-2021, upset many assumptions and taboos, but perhaps just as surprising is that he has brushed off two impeachments, a criminal conviction and several other threats to contend again for the White House. His come-from-behind win against Hillary Clinton in 2016, by claiming outsider status and promising to bring a businessman’s acumen for dealmaking to the White House, shocked the US political system and fundamentally changed the Republican party. In 2024, four years after losing to Joe Biden, he still casts himself as the man to …