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increasingly, the difference between democratic and republican is "striking the iron ice cold to follow due process" vs. "fuck it, we'll do it live"
Yep, and having this kind of momentum is (obviously) extremely politically valuable. Trump's done an amazing job so far keeping his opponents off-balance and on the defensive by just being in constant motion. There are some lessons we can take away from this for sure.
The takeaway here is you can just do things. I feel like in every given state about 90% of the things that govern mandates and responsibilities boil down "you can't do this" but don't bother to put forth any consequence for it. It's just assumed everybody sticks to the rules
Yep, exactly. And that even if something does get struck down eventually, a lot of your goals get realized in the short-term if you just go ahead and try to implement what you want. You'll end up gaining ground, even if eventually you get pushed back a little bit. The value of continuing to drive forward and forcing your opponents to triage as to what to respond to can't be overstated.
the ratchet does actually work both ways, it's just that the liberals are unable to turn the dial
I think liberals failing to understand this is actually at the root of the common refrain of "well of course things don't get any better--you only elect Democrats for one term! We need to control all three branches of government for 15 years to really make any progress!"
This week has torn that argument to shreds. You need that long if you're committed to giving everything a committee hearing, 8-12 months of open comments, a different smaller committee hearing, an open vote, a consultation session with your political opponents, and then seven successive rounds of rewrites. Turns out you don't have to do any of that. You can just do your agenda in a matter of days. I'm hoping that seeing this in action is going to shock awake at least a few people who honestly thought that the Democrats wanted to do good things but were just handcuffed by procedure. I think we're seeing rumblings of that already.
It hasn't, I don't think. They'll return to due process, because that's basically the religious beliefe they operate on.
I mean let's be honest, why does President Trump have like a nationwide blackshirt agency ready to go fucking day one? We're like 5 days in and the blackshirts are out in full force, why was this a thing that the biden presidency kept around? What were they doing under Biden?