<ul><li>Donald Trump has been President of the US for about four months, implementing policies that have stirred both the world and the US economy with resistance and criticism.</li><li>Trump envisions making America a greater economic power, despite concerns about the already substantial GDP and the limitations of his four-year term compared to President Roosevelt's longer tenure.</li><li>Similar to Roosevelt's New Deal policies in the 1930s, Trump's approach challenges existing orthodoxies, leading to intense opposition that parallels the paradigm shifts described by Thomas Kuhn in science.</li><li>Both Roosevelt and Trump faced backlash for their disruptive ideas, with Roosevelt's revolutionary policies eventually becoming orthodox post-World War II, reflecting the cycle of resistance to new ideas followed by the establishment of a new paradigm.</li></ul>

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