We've apparently entered the lame duck news cycle. It's an old playbook reflexively referring to a president's second and presumably last term and writing about it as the so-called lame duck period. Headline after headline now frame Donald Trump as a lame duck.A term meant to convey a president not seeking reelection who will remove themselves from power after the next election with diminished authority and waning influence over the government, its institutions, and their own party. A president acting like ...