“The Golden Age of America begins right now,” declared President Donald Trump in his inaugural address on Monday. “From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world.” The once seemingly improbable comeback of Trump after his 2020 defeat, the chaos of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, an initial GOP primary challenge and a litany of criminal indictments is certainly one for the history books. But his clear and decisive victory in November, marked by narrative-shattering gains in Black and Latino support, shows that many Americans were willing to give him another chance. No doubt, this had much to do with the unpopularity of much of the Biden administration’s policies and especially the unpopularity of Vice President Kamala Harris. Unsurprisingly, much of Trump’s inaugural address was focused on making clear that the Trump administration would be rolling back much of the Biden administration’s signature policies. While Biden sought to steer America toward a Green New Deal, Trump’s energy policy will be “drill, baby, drill.” While Biden sought to promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, Trump has vowed to “forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based.” While Biden went out of his way to promote transgender individuals, Trump declared, “As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.” And Trump sought to capitalize on what many perceived as Biden’s biggest policy failure, which was the effective management of the U.S.-Mexico border. Here, Trump has vowed to send troops to the border, remove criminal gangs and ramp up border security. Many of these policy reversals, we’re sure, will be popular. Some, especially his pivot to more affordable and reliable energy, may even yield tangible benefits for ordinary Americans. Behind the scenes, Trump began signing off on executive orders getting these reveral underway. Given Congress’s ceding of many powers to the executive branch, he will likely be able to do quite a lot this way. We expect, though, that his plan to abolish birthright citizenship via executive order will be among those clear overreaches  that will get tied up and ultimately rejected in the courts. Among his other more unfortunate ideas are his proposal to establish an External Revenue Service. “Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens,” he claimed.  What this shows is that Trump still doesn’t know how tariffs actually work. At the end of the day, those doing the importing pay the tariffs and those businesses inevitably pass the costs on to American consumers. If Trump wants to help American workers, he should prioritize keeping federal spending under control, deregulating markets across the board and keeping taxes globally competitive. In his address, Trump also indulged his fixation on the Gulf of Mexico and the Panama Canal. These are unwelcome distractions. As with his first administration, we are sure there will be many such distractions to come. Trump is also sure to be emboldened by President Biden’s shameful preemptive pardons of political allies and family members. Biden’s precedent is sure to enable misuses of presidential pardon powers moving forward. We will see how carefully, or not, Trump uses this power. This editorial board will agree and disagree with Trump on many things. We can only hope he uses this opportunity for leadership wisely.