Kinda shortsighted on their part, since the tariffs are likely going to lead to a recession, and then voters will flip straight back to the Dems who will undo most of Trump’s policies.
IMO the correct answer is the collection of fascist hucksters around Trump are in the pocket of one or more of those organizations (and other equally odious ones, or just interested in their own enrichment and the general rise of fascism). The one that gets their policies enacted depends on who has Trump’s ear today (and how much backsheesh they’ve been paid by those organizations)
They’ll undo his policies, but undoing the damage may be impossible. They have four years to gut as much of the government as they can, and those departments and their people will be gone. You don’t rebuild something like like in just a few years. They’ll take that as a win, and then try to come back for more.
My own thoughts is that he is following the biblical example of what is considered in modern terms to be the antichrist. So the answer is he is either just a puppet of the lord of darkness or aspires to be that by following the biblical examples of such a person.
This is sadly true.
Stephen Miller creates all of them related to homeland security and immigration. Others I cannot name.
More than undo the policies, they need to put guardrails in place so the next a-hole who comes along (from either side) can’t do some of these things, even with Congressional consent.
That’s what’s going to be most problematic in the long haul, not a few thousand layoffs or some obnoxious policies concerning trans people or something.
They’ve been ordered to hire those people back. Will they? They will drag their feet.
Some of those folks will have gone on to other things. Some will say ‘Stuff it’.
They ignored the court order to not deport some people a few days ago, and now Trump olis asserting that Biden’s pardons are invalid.
So yeah, I’m expecting them to largely ignore this one.
My assumption is that they’ll appeal everything, and argue they did not need to comply until the final appeal is complete.
They’re not even being that subtle. See the comment in this post from another thread:
I’m not sure how that would work. The two methods I can think of are constitutional amendment or violent overthrow of the government. Either seems unlikely.
A little bit of both? I’m at the point where I think the US needs a complete overhaul of its system of government, even as I know how goddamn impossible that would be.
There was a video a few weeks ago of Miller and his Timu clone dude handing Trump an EO and he looks at them and says, “What’s this one?” Not, what’s it about, but literally: I don’t know what you are handing me, I’m going to sign it obviously, but have no information whatsoever about what it is.
Trump doesn’t read anything that is more than 240 characters, and even as that his reading comprehension is questionable at best.
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It can’t be a coincidence that so much of what Trump does benefits Russia. I don’t feel that Putin is phoning Trump and giving him orders. But I feel that somewhere in Trump’s immediate circle, there’s somebody who’s getting orders from Moscow and then presenting these orders as suggestions to Trump.
I find this from today’s news relevant:
My view is that Trump is “calling the shots,” just as Biden was.
Which is laughable, because President Biden was interviewed and presented comments specifically about the pardons a few times, and it was nationwide news for days, so the “he didn’t even know about them!” cry is DOA, unless…perhaps, it’s a bad faith argument from the outset.
Really?
ProPublica Dispatches (20 March 2025)
Vought spoke openly about the ongoing planning to defund independent federal agencies and demonize government scientists. “We have detailed agency plans,” he said. “We are writing the actual executive orders. We are writing the actual regulations now, and we are sorting out the legal authorities for all of what President Trump is running on.”
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