There will surely be turf wars and palace intrigue within the administration, but there is little reason to think that its core figures will fracture in the pursuit of this basic goal. To say that these figures are ideologically cohesive, however, is not to say that they will be successful. The continuing fact of class dealignment means that Trump’s 77 million voters are more dependent than ever on state provision. The twentieth-century state came into being for a reason and endured, however partially, for a reason; gutting it would unleash forces that no one can predict or control. If the project of Trump’s second term fails, it will not be because its protagonists turned on one another, but rather because the ice broke beneath their feet.