I think I truly agree with the comment above. NO he isn't getting ANYTHING done. He's all over the place and he seems to space stuff out! I truly don't believe there is ANY "brutal" efficiency!
Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary ran into the morass of rules and regulations that tend to hold things up. His experience would make him an asset in any administration wanting to move things along.
Accountability? Let's start with Democrats winning the majority in both houses of Congress. I guarantee you that Trump will be impeached, convicted and thrown out of office. Then the next step is impeaching his corrupt cabinet. Perhaps those actions will send a clear signal that we the people have had enough of the grifting, power hungry mob and are willing to take action to ensure our democracy survives.
What he has been so good at is exposing the “holes”, which ‘traditions and norms’ don’t cover / close.
Congress not only has to reclaim its constitutional powers, but we need to seriously limit the powers of the president. Rump has proved that one man can’t not be trusted with ultimate authority in so much of executive power.
DOJ MUST be severed from Oval Office control, the AG on down, including the other department’s inspector generals need to be career civil servants promoted from within the ranks, subject only to be removed by impeachment.
Not only should the president not be immune from prosecution, if indicted, he should be temporarily removed (25th Amendment) until after trial.
“Perjury from the Podium” something I have advocated for years now; public figures, including news, pod casters, subjected to perjury for lying to the public that they serve.
We have given up accountability, consequences, restraints, and the law itself to a thug who has only the goal of self-enrichment and self-promotion. He is a liar, a thief,a grifter, and a cheat. W will not get our country back in the condition in which we surrendered it. It is tattered, broken, and compromised. We can blame others if we wish to do that, but we the people have done this to ourselves. We still have some time before our democracy is irretrievably lost, irreparably broken. Do we have the will to fight for it?
After all this, I'm not even sure what Dan Moynihan's solution to Trump is. That's the thing I care about--how we avoid becoming the authoritarian state we are well on our way to becoming. This reads like yet another laundry list of every wretched thing Trump and his lickspittles have done to American democracy in the last year. We know, we know. But what are the big ideas that will get us through the next three years and beyond? Stating in a concluding paragraph that "My hope is that the conversations among those opposed to Trump continue to focus on how to make government work better..." doesn't exactly inspire those of us who view democracy teetering on the edge.
"many progressive thinkers were forming their own criticisms of public institutions as too tied down by procedural constraints to actually realize their goals." ......... "thinkers" is the key word in that comment because that, right there, proves none of them are capable of understanding what it takes, means & does to organize, run & succeed, a democracy and respect a powerful Constitution... these days "progressives" look at this as if it's a business and they all want a bigger piece and they are salivating at the chance to grab some..oil anyone???.. it is NOT... it is 330,000,000 people in a full spectrum of gifts to our country as some also need protection, in many forms, food etc., by our country... all these Heritage, Project2025 & Federalists lack the vision, understanding and brain width to do this... elon, et al, is proving it disasterously every damn day...but honestly who's left with any power to stop these business men's wet dream.. I know that was crude and unbecoming of a 79yo gramma/nonna but it is my children & grandchildren I'm fightening for and I cannot believe I have to do this all over again...
Trump's 'brutal efficiency' isn't efficiency at all, but a man who has decided he's free of any constraints and is, literally, King John of England before the Magna Carta. His 'rule' is all about doing things that benefit him; and his destruction of the administrative state helps his sycophants who will give him money in order to get what they want.
Yes, the administrative state has problems. But far less problems than an authoritarian state that rolls over anyone and anything that disagrees with their position. The 'faith in institutions' issue is one of a predominantly right wing sphere that has spent fortunes on convincing people that they are getting bad service, or no service at all, when they actually are receiving what they are entitled to. You say it often enough, with enough undocumented stories, and people will come to believe it as a truth and the stories as real. Take, on a local level, the DMV. Everyone 'knows' the DMV is a horrible organization. I don't. I've lived in multiple states and dealt with multiple versions of the DMV, and have had no issues to speak of.
The Roberts Court (2/3's of) has basically set out to destroy the framework of our country and pretend they're doing it in the name of the Constitution. Handing Trump king-like power, destroying the safeguards of the Civil RIghts and Voting RIghts Acts, and turning a blind eye to issues which 'patrons' of the court want ignored has created a system where exclusion and discrimination can once again reign supreme. I fear the day when the right, controlling 2/3s of the states, hold a Constitutional Convention and gut all restraints and the Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments which enlarged the voter base.
Having 'flexibility' is one thing, but declaring that someone may prescribe arsenic to cure health issues is not flexibility, but malpractice at best and criminal at worst. The Trump administration is nothing more than a collection of criminals who follow the lead of the Al Capone of our age.
I think I truly agree with the comment above. NO he isn't getting ANYTHING done. He's all over the place and he seems to space stuff out! I truly don't believe there is ANY "brutal" efficiency!
Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary ran into the morass of rules and regulations that tend to hold things up. His experience would make him an asset in any administration wanting to move things along.
Great contrast! Thank you. Sounds like Drunkel Man has drunk too much of the orange koolaid.
Accountability? Let's start with Democrats winning the majority in both houses of Congress. I guarantee you that Trump will be impeached, convicted and thrown out of office. Then the next step is impeaching his corrupt cabinet. Perhaps those actions will send a clear signal that we the people have had enough of the grifting, power hungry mob and are willing to take action to ensure our democracy survives.
What he has been so good at is exposing the “holes”, which ‘traditions and norms’ don’t cover / close.
Congress not only has to reclaim its constitutional powers, but we need to seriously limit the powers of the president. Rump has proved that one man can’t not be trusted with ultimate authority in so much of executive power.
DOJ MUST be severed from Oval Office control, the AG on down, including the other department’s inspector generals need to be career civil servants promoted from within the ranks, subject only to be removed by impeachment.
Not only should the president not be immune from prosecution, if indicted, he should be temporarily removed (25th Amendment) until after trial.
“Perjury from the Podium” something I have advocated for years now; public figures, including news, pod casters, subjected to perjury for lying to the public that they serve.
We have given up accountability, consequences, restraints, and the law itself to a thug who has only the goal of self-enrichment and self-promotion. He is a liar, a thief,a grifter, and a cheat. W will not get our country back in the condition in which we surrendered it. It is tattered, broken, and compromised. We can blame others if we wish to do that, but we the people have done this to ourselves. We still have some time before our democracy is irretrievably lost, irreparably broken. Do we have the will to fight for it?
After all this, I'm not even sure what Dan Moynihan's solution to Trump is. That's the thing I care about--how we avoid becoming the authoritarian state we are well on our way to becoming. This reads like yet another laundry list of every wretched thing Trump and his lickspittles have done to American democracy in the last year. We know, we know. But what are the big ideas that will get us through the next three years and beyond? Stating in a concluding paragraph that "My hope is that the conversations among those opposed to Trump continue to focus on how to make government work better..." doesn't exactly inspire those of us who view democracy teetering on the edge.
"many progressive thinkers were forming their own criticisms of public institutions as too tied down by procedural constraints to actually realize their goals." ......... "thinkers" is the key word in that comment because that, right there, proves none of them are capable of understanding what it takes, means & does to organize, run & succeed, a democracy and respect a powerful Constitution... these days "progressives" look at this as if it's a business and they all want a bigger piece and they are salivating at the chance to grab some..oil anyone???.. it is NOT... it is 330,000,000 people in a full spectrum of gifts to our country as some also need protection, in many forms, food etc., by our country... all these Heritage, Project2025 & Federalists lack the vision, understanding and brain width to do this... elon, et al, is proving it disasterously every damn day...but honestly who's left with any power to stop these business men's wet dream.. I know that was crude and unbecoming of a 79yo gramma/nonna but it is my children & grandchildren I'm fightening for and I cannot believe I have to do this all over again...
Well! Heck. Why don't we all go back and live in a jungle!!!
Trump's 'brutal efficiency' isn't efficiency at all, but a man who has decided he's free of any constraints and is, literally, King John of England before the Magna Carta. His 'rule' is all about doing things that benefit him; and his destruction of the administrative state helps his sycophants who will give him money in order to get what they want.
Yes, the administrative state has problems. But far less problems than an authoritarian state that rolls over anyone and anything that disagrees with their position. The 'faith in institutions' issue is one of a predominantly right wing sphere that has spent fortunes on convincing people that they are getting bad service, or no service at all, when they actually are receiving what they are entitled to. You say it often enough, with enough undocumented stories, and people will come to believe it as a truth and the stories as real. Take, on a local level, the DMV. Everyone 'knows' the DMV is a horrible organization. I don't. I've lived in multiple states and dealt with multiple versions of the DMV, and have had no issues to speak of.
The Roberts Court (2/3's of) has basically set out to destroy the framework of our country and pretend they're doing it in the name of the Constitution. Handing Trump king-like power, destroying the safeguards of the Civil RIghts and Voting RIghts Acts, and turning a blind eye to issues which 'patrons' of the court want ignored has created a system where exclusion and discrimination can once again reign supreme. I fear the day when the right, controlling 2/3s of the states, hold a Constitutional Convention and gut all restraints and the Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments which enlarged the voter base.
Having 'flexibility' is one thing, but declaring that someone may prescribe arsenic to cure health issues is not flexibility, but malpractice at best and criminal at worst. The Trump administration is nothing more than a collection of criminals who follow the lead of the Al Capone of our age.