Notes from My Journal:
Perhaps the most effective PR strategy that Team Trump adopted for his second term of office is the protocol and precedent for signing executive orders.
Understanding a reality that has been true since January of 2016 – that half of US voters and three-quarters of the US media have advanced TDS and will stop at nothing to impeach him and oppose all the promises he made when running for president in 2024 – they decided to have the POTUS issue a continuous stream of increasingly wide-reaching and in some cases downright alarming executive orders. And to issue them relentlessly, one after another, so that neither his political opponents nor the mainstream media would have time to launch a successful counter-offensive. By the time they could muster up their argument about what was wrong with EO #1000, Trump would be announcing EO #1001, which would seize the headlines for the next 24 to 48 hours, leaving EO #1000 all but something in the past.
This has allowed Trump to, among many other things, launch his border strategy, which included restricting birthright citizenship (currently blocked in court), reinstating travel restrictions, drastically reducing refugee admissions, initiating a federal government and workforce overhaul, creating DOGE, ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12, restoring biological definitions of sex in federal policy, and bans and rollbacks on federal energy and regulatory policies.
It has been a two-edged political sword for the Democrats. While the attention span of Trump’s amateur and professional critics has greatly shortened since January, so has the attention span of Conservatives and Libertarians who are quickly forgetting and even discounting so many of Trump’s accomplishments.
