Just what can stop the all-powerful Donald Trump? The stock market, our last hope

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Open this photo in gallery: A cut-out of president-elect Donald Trump is displayed on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York’s Financial District on Jan. 2.Seth Wenig/The Associated Press John Rapley is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. He is an author and academic whose books include Why Empires Fall and Twilight of the Money Gods. Donald Trump's "flood the zone" strategy looks politically ingenious. The man repeatedly knocks his punch-drunk opponents off balance, and before they have a chance to respond he lobs another grenade. Although many of his executive orders will be…