U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi on the sidelines of the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday.Evan Vucci/The Associated Press

A year after returning to the White House, Donald Trump just keeps getting away with it. Each violation of the U.S. Constitution or international law, act of retribution, denial of due process and abuse of presidential authority that goes unchallenged has emboldened him to go further.

And Democrats seem clueless about how to stop him.

Even former Trump adviser Steve Bannon marvels at the lack of serious pushback against his ex-boss’s efforts to move what is known in political science circles as the Overton window – the boundaries of acceptable policy and political conduct – to increase his power, advance his agenda and leave Democrats struggling to catch up.

“Remember, our strategy – I say it every day – is maximalist, a maximalist strategy. You have to take it however deep you can take it and, quite frankly, until you meet resistance,” he told The Atlantic’s Ashley Parker. “And we haven’t met any resistance.”

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Ms. Parker attributes the weakness of the opposition to Trump Exhaustion Syndrome,........

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