I’m starting to think that his strategy is chaos, flooding the zone with so many things that no one can respond to all. I’m not sure his team can respond to all but here we are. At the moment, I am enthralled by the AWFLs up in arms over ICE but completely silent on the rash of murders and attempted murders by repeatedly offenders who the injustice system turns loose on innocents.
As I said, I don't elide that as an intentional strategy in managing the oppositional defiant media. But chaos isn't the end in itself, rather an enabling feature - it just rides along with necessity, given how much he wants to get done before either Congress ties him up or his four years are over. For kicks, read Chris Whipple's book on all the WH Chiefs of Staff through the ages - generally WH Chiefs scope down the administration to just a few key initiatives over the span of the presidential term. That's been the status quo in government, in general, but not in industry. And that's what makes Trump so different - so upsetting - so "chaotic".
Whether it matters in the long-run is whether Johnson and Thune get off their asses and codify much of it in durable legislation, IMHO. And do so in the next 11 months with the (scant) majority they have.
They promised us before Christmas that the new year would be chock full of legislative initiatives. They started out with some kind of leadership retreat where I'd HOPED they were putting the final touches on this grand plan. Since then, the Congress looks like a construction site where someone forgot to deliver the lumber.
I am so sick of hearing about the "legislative calendar" and how that ties everything up. Screw that! Trump's operating on a completely different tempo, and as I told my congressman the last time I saw him (before Christmas): "you need to support the president, at his pace." Would that we all told our congressmen this!
I don't disagree with the sentiment overall, but I wonder if *this* time it's a tactical or strategic play rather than a mealy-mouthed excuse for GOPe never getting anything done that they were put in office to do.
And I say that only or mostly because within the past month or so I saw JChilders pose that as a possibility.
I'm almost 63 years old now and I've been supporting Republicans since Reagan's time. It's always the same story: "We can't do anything without the White House" or "Without a larger majority, we're hamstrung in the House" or "Unless we get 60 votes in the Senate we're stuck". None of this ever stopped the Democrats from getting their agendas through. It seems like the GOP can only play defense. Only Newt Gingrich played offense.
Excellent, and so true! It seems there was a lot of planning in the four years before the president's second victory, as well. I especially love that he's challenging so many Constitutional "assumptions" (like birthright citizenship).
When Trump said he had no knowledge of Project 25, I didn't believe him. I'll stipulate he wasn't the architect - that took hundreds, perhaps thousands of people to craft over four years. Likely well over 100 EOs were already in Final Draft before he was sworn in. But it was his decision, assuredly, to go with "all of it, all at once". It's truly breathtaking in its audacity. And I do think it is his vision that this was the only way to succeed - that it couldn't be done piecemeal. See the OBBB strategy as just one example.
I’m starting to think that his strategy is chaos, flooding the zone with so many things that no one can respond to all. I’m not sure his team can respond to all but here we are. At the moment, I am enthralled by the AWFLs up in arms over ICE but completely silent on the rash of murders and attempted murders by repeatedly offenders who the injustice system turns loose on innocents.
As I said, I don't elide that as an intentional strategy in managing the oppositional defiant media. But chaos isn't the end in itself, rather an enabling feature - it just rides along with necessity, given how much he wants to get done before either Congress ties him up or his four years are over. For kicks, read Chris Whipple's book on all the WH Chiefs of Staff through the ages - generally WH Chiefs scope down the administration to just a few key initiatives over the span of the presidential term. That's been the status quo in government, in general, but not in industry. And that's what makes Trump so different - so upsetting - so "chaotic".
So many bon mots in this article! "narratus interruptus" is currently in first place. Gotta catch'em all!
I need to copyright that particular neologism.
Whether it matters in the long-run is whether Johnson and Thune get off their asses and codify much of it in durable legislation, IMHO. And do so in the next 11 months with the (scant) majority they have.
They promised us before Christmas that the new year would be chock full of legislative initiatives. They started out with some kind of leadership retreat where I'd HOPED they were putting the final touches on this grand plan. Since then, the Congress looks like a construction site where someone forgot to deliver the lumber.
I just hope it's a case of them not wanting to peak too soon, before the playoffs, to borrow a sports metaphor.
I am so sick of hearing about the "legislative calendar" and how that ties everything up. Screw that! Trump's operating on a completely different tempo, and as I told my congressman the last time I saw him (before Christmas): "you need to support the president, at his pace." Would that we all told our congressmen this!
I don't disagree with the sentiment overall, but I wonder if *this* time it's a tactical or strategic play rather than a mealy-mouthed excuse for GOPe never getting anything done that they were put in office to do.
And I say that only or mostly because within the past month or so I saw JChilders pose that as a possibility.
I'm almost 63 years old now and I've been supporting Republicans since Reagan's time. It's always the same story: "We can't do anything without the White House" or "Without a larger majority, we're hamstrung in the House" or "Unless we get 60 votes in the Senate we're stuck". None of this ever stopped the Democrats from getting their agendas through. It seems like the GOP can only play defense. Only Newt Gingrich played offense.
Ditto. I'll be 65 this year. Reagan 1980 was my first of many frustrating GOP votes.
We need another Lee Atwater...or a few of them.
The alleged Best Picture "Everything Everywhere All At Once" stank on hot ice.
Nevertheless, I eagerly await its sequel about Trump 2.0.
Excellent, and so true! It seems there was a lot of planning in the four years before the president's second victory, as well. I especially love that he's challenging so many Constitutional "assumptions" (like birthright citizenship).
When Trump said he had no knowledge of Project 25, I didn't believe him. I'll stipulate he wasn't the architect - that took hundreds, perhaps thousands of people to craft over four years. Likely well over 100 EOs were already in Final Draft before he was sworn in. But it was his decision, assuredly, to go with "all of it, all at once". It's truly breathtaking in its audacity. And I do think it is his vision that this was the only way to succeed - that it couldn't be done piecemeal. See the OBBB strategy as just one example.