According to two advisers who spoke with the president-elect in advance of his inauguration, Trump was betting that a “flood the zone” approach could overwhelm a demoralized Democratic Party and over-saturate the media ecosystem.
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Trump’s First 10 Days Back in Power Were Uniquely Depraved. Don’t Get Numb To It
Late last year, as Donald Trump and his transition staff crafted executive orders, pardons, and a multi-front policy blitz designed to create “shock and awe” at the dawn of his second term in the White House, they were confident that the American people would ultimately let them get away with it — no matter the initial media or political backlash.
According to two advisers who spoke with the president-elect in advance of his inauguration, Trump was betting that a “flood the zone” approach could overwhelm a demoralized Democratic Party and oversaturate the media ecosystem. Trump and his officials were confident the general public would grow numb — and stay numb — to this opening onslaught.
Trump appears to be taking that mentality to heart. The first 10 days of the administration have been marked by an unprecedented barrage of barbaric policy moves and casual executive depravity. In many cases these actions have flown in the face of the law, decades of tradition, and even the Constitution.
Trump has remained remarkably faithful to his dark, Day One promises, and has attempted to govern as an authoritarian. The president’s early actions have not gone unchallenged. A bevy of lawsuits — including, as promised, by blue-state attorneys general — have already been filed, seeking to block, or at least blunt, the damage.
Many of his early orders and actions have drawn directly from the right-wing playbook detailed in Project 2025 — making a sucker out of anyone who took Trump’s campaign disavowals of the Heritage Foundation-crafted agenda seriously.
If you’ve been unable to take it all in — or felt like you needed to look away — know that that’s by design. Take a few moments and catch up on the worst of what you may have missed:
Rolling Back Civil Rights
Debasing the Rule of Law
Nativism as Immigration Policy
The Brown New Deal
Know-Nothing Health and Science
Cabinet of Horrors
Trump has already pushed a slate of controversial cabinet appointees through the Senate.
War on Accountability
Jingoistic Name Games
Trump issued orders to:
Fouled-up Foreign Policy
A Lightning Trade War
Eroding Gun Safety
Pursuing Petty Grievances
Big Boss Dysfunction
It's not amateur hour anymore
Debunking Alex Jones, his Con Men, and Space Weirdos
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