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It’s not just about whether these executive orders stick. It’s about draining the energy and resources of good people by forcing us to keep fighting all the time. Rope a dope.

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Right. The strategy this time around should be universally concerning: our system is built for drawn-out consideration, not handling rapid-fire edicts from an executive who doesn't understand (or doesn't wish to understand) the division of power between branches of government.

Trump appears to be signaling that he's going to sign orders and memos until the other branches roll over through attrition. I hope they remember their coextensive powers before that strategy actually works.

I'm hoping a result of this shitshow is a curtailing the power of the executive. We've been slow-walking our way towards this by congress abrogating their responsibility under both parties. Probably requires actual restructuring of congressional elections and seniority systems though, which is... well going to be hard.

I agree completely!

It would also require Congress to actually pass more legislation. A lot of the 'ruling by executive order' culture came as a result of the increasing polarisation of the legislature and subsequent lack of compromise.

This. The left needs to admit that they are guilty of this too and exercise forbearance to stop this cycle if they lucky enough to get the chance.

Don't worry, no such result will happen, as the other party is already showing they have just as little interest in actually changing things - they're going to keep everything "same old". [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/us/politics/ken-martin-dn...

If we make it through this intact and another, more serious and compassionate group of adults manage to regain legislative power they absolutely must exercise forbearance try to curtail the power of the President to rule through Executive Orders -- left, right, and center. This is no way to run a country.

I am hoping the interest payment portion of the debt overtakes everything before then and just resolves everything.

Gotta hand it to the conservatives. They have been relentlessly working toward it since post Nixon era in every level of government and the media. It’s a fresh approach to fascism that is going to be studied in history alongside the “classic” ones.

All conservatives want is less government interference and less taxes! They never voted for any of this.

They voted for this. If they don’t think they did, it’s only because they are ignorant fools.

All of the conservatives I know have given up and vote for the democrats. For one thing, Trump primaries / purged all the conservatives from the GOP during his first term.

Sorry but there are absolutely people out there, maybe not the traditional principled republican voters, but still Trump voters who wanted a strong man / dictators.

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