Now comes the bigger (and tougher) task of trying to reshape the economy in various directions.
When Republicans took control of the House, they eschewed such measures and promised to fund the government through carefully drafted spending bills that would reshape the government in a conservative direction.
But, blue slips or not, Trump is poised to reshape the judiciary in a notably conservative direction, even if he doesn't get any more appointments to the Supreme Court.
Moreover, political strategies that move in this direction in order to reshape the understanding of Britishness.
The plan to reshape the benefits system is a further step in a direction of travel taken in Britain by both the Conservatives in the 1980s and 1990s and Labour over the past 13 years.
Mark Downs, chief executive of the Royal Society of Biology, sees a larger impact: "The potential remit of Research UK, extending into both research council and departmental research directions, is broad and could fundamentally reshape the research landscape of the U.K".
Chief executive Emyr Roberts promised: "We will also begin to reshape the work we do with a fresh approach and new direction - to make the environment do more for the people, economy and wildlife of Wales".
Trump wants to reshape the international order and remold it in a more populist direction to appease his constituency and not because he is not of the elite.
The first stage is to reshape the original control for satisfying the constraint and preserving the original control direction.
Now, with the economy in free fall and likely to get worse, Americans — despite their suffering — have an opportunity to reshape the society, and then to move it in a fairer, smarter and ultimately more productive direction.
