Trump should absolutely bust Beltway norms but not constitutional ones

President-elect Donald Trump is looking at blowing through a host of “norms” in his second term, per the talk out of MAGA-world, to which we say “yay — but.”Thing is, some so-called norms are just the way Washington’s gotten used to working: pieties that need to be defied.Others are genuine, necessary checks and balances — rooted in the Constitution and in lessons learned these last 235 years.Trump blew through plenty of the fake ones in his first term, ignoring received wisdom to pull out of the Paris climate accords, move the US embassy to Jerusalem while tossing pursuit of the “two state solution” as central to Middle East peace, tell our NATO allies they needed to up their defense spending or else they were threatening the alliance and so on.He also played hardball with Mexico to get it to help rather than hinder securing the US border, got serious about sanctioning Iran as he took out its top terror-master, Gen.Qasem Soleimani and even made nice in public with avowed US foes like Vladimir Putin.And, yes, that last one went down badly with us — but he also paired it with sending lethal aid to Ukraine where the Obama team wouldn’t.But when it came to actual norms, he respected traditional bounds: Most notably, even when court rulings frustrating his agenda were ridiculous, he heeded them.That’s a huge contrast with, say, President Biden’s brags about defying the Supreme Court slapdown of his student-loan giveaways, or Barack Obama’s pseudo-legalization of whole classes of illegal migrants.But now there’s gossip out of MAGA world about crossing those lines — after all, the other side did it.No doubt: Democrats and the left did weaponize the intelligence community and the Department of Justice against Trump.Obama holdovers used the laughable Russiagate allegations and other dirty tricks to kneecap his presidency, and then ginned up the Ukraine-phone-call “scandal” to feed his first impeachment; the Biden DOJ waged lawfare on him...