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...