Trump and the GOP have a mandate to govern, ie. to conduct the normal affairs of the government in accordance with statute and internal policy. A "mandate" mak

Trump and the GOP have a mandate to govern, ie. to conduct the normal affairs of the government in accordance with statute and internal policy. A "mandate" makes it sound like Trump, with a minority of the adult voting-age adult population of the United States has received the right to transform the country wholesale, which simply isn't true.