Posted on 05/18/2025 8:50:38 AM PDT by Starman417
As the west was seemingly spinning off its axis of common sense, it was the relief of a lifetime when Donald Trump prevailed in 2024. Suddenly the world that had been turned on its head was going to be set right again. We were going to have an actual border again. Men weren’t going to be allowed to play in women’s sports. Freedom of speech was going to be a thing again. DEI was going to be fading in the rear-view mirror rather than a roadblock to merit and success.
On most of these things the President has been rock solid. But, sadly there are troubling circumstances nonetheless.
One is highlighted by Democrat Jamie Raskin’s warning to countries who work with the Trump administration: "If and when we come back to power, and we will, we are not going to look kindly upon people who facilitated, to use the word of the day, who facilitated authoritarianism in our country. That's an assault on our Constitution and our people," Raskin is essentially threatening those who work with the Trump administration with consequences when Democrats returned to power.
That promise showcases one of the fundamental problems with the Trump 47 administration: Executive Orders. The problem with EOs is that they are not laws, and therefore are susceptible to reversal by the next guy who sits in the Oval Office. (One that should have been but never was is JFK’s Executive Order 10988, which allowed federal employees to unionize.)
Trump has issued Executive Orders addressing issues from immigration, energy, education, keeping men out of women’s sports and more. They’re great, but unfortunately Congress is not turning those EOs into laws… which means that the next time Democrats steal the White House, all of those can be immediately repealed, which is exactly what happened with Trump 45’s EOs. Has he learned nothing?
Another area of concern has to do with rouge judges. Trump has faced an unprecedented number of nationwide injunctions and insane court orders. These have included everything from immigration to federal waste and fraud to transgender surgeries to men in women’s sports. Trump is allowing himself and his agenda to be hamstrung by Obama and Biden activists. Axios even wrote a piece titled “Lower courts' growing power over the president”. President Trump just passed his first 100 days, what’s commonly called the “Honeymoon” for a president where he has the momentum and usually the greatest chance of getting legislation passed. But this administration is not doing that, in large part because the GOP party is full of RINOs and lawmakers are too busy grandstanding or sucking up to donors by introducing over 5,000 mostly pointless bills and resolutions, 95% of which will end in the shredder.
Given that the GOP House is led by a guy with a pathetic 75% Liberty Score, the filibuster gives Democrats a veto over pretty much anything and the Supreme Court is led by swamp dweller, Trump has few good options. But few doesn’t mean none. This is probably a bad quote to showcase given the circumstances, but it fits. After a Supreme Court ruling that went against him in 1832, President Andrew Jackson may or may not have said about the Chief Justice, “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.”
In that same vein, Trump should simply ignore the lower courts’ injunctions that go beyond the specific participants in any case. Judges have no Constitutional power to make nationwide injunctions and Trump should act accordingly. Force Congress to come up with a solution. And for those who cry that Trump would be doing something unprecedentedly unconstitutional… not so much. Jefferson made the Louisiana Purchase even though he believed he had no Constitutional power to do so. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, FDR forced internment of over 100,000 Japanese American citizens, Obama weaponized the IRS to target his opponents and invented DACA while Biden bragged about defying the Supreme Court after they rejected his cancellation of student loans. And there are others.
The reality is, the judiciary is running a coup d'état and if Trump doesn’t end to it soon, his legacy will be failure and the collapse of the Republic.
While the judiciary is the most critical issue, there are still others that must be addressed.
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And then the gob congress and judiciary struck.
There was never a honeymoon.
At all.
Many of us have been saying that since January 6. The damnable putative Republican Congress is absolutely useless in codifying President Trump's work in law.
"Another area of concern has to do with ROUGE judges."
Yes, indeed, the "red" judges are a serious problem and roadblock to serious reform and MAGA.
the mistake this author makes is in assuming the speaker is on board with MAGA. I haven’t seen any evidence to support this
Presidents like Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, and FDR used their black-letter Article II power forcefully, and ignored Article III intrusions - but they all had huge legislative majorities committed to their actions, no matter what.
Donald Trump does not have a working Congressional majority - not even close - and there is probably a majority in Congress willing to remove him if he gets serious about illegal aliens.
The reality is, the judiciary is running a coup d'état and if Trump doesn’t end to it soon, his legacy will be failure and the collapse of the Republic.
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Trump best pick a hill to fight, fight, fight on. And soon.
Neither House of Congress has a MAGA majority, or anything close to it.
While I agree with the above statement, I do think Trump will correct the situation sometime before July.
At least that's what Bannon is saying.
Really bad idea, imo...
As in Khmer Rouge.
Way to throw a wet blanket! Every idiot knows that executive orders aren’t laws. Trump is doing the best he can with the tools he has. Use executive orders and trust the voters not to put Democrats in the position to steal another election. That is the best way to do it.
I would trust the voters about as far as I could throw them.
Use executive orders and trust the voters not to put Democrats in the position to steal another election.
It also assumes they’ll even bother to show up to vote.
It is not Trump’s fault.
Time to kill the lawyers.
Honeymoon?
The bimbos and pretentious ‘men’ in the press need to go back to telling us Biden is sharp as a tack - that’s more believable than a ‘honeymoon’... Maybe the Washington Post, New York Times and MSNBC can get back together and run Biden in three years.
I mean Biden is the best version of Biden he’s ever been and his butt boys in the press can push that lie everyday - - all of them believing each other. Yeah, and Biden will get a four year honeymoon - not the 12 minutes Trump might have gotten.
The writer mistakes the presidency for God — and so is naturally disappointed that despite having more than a 100 more days to work with, the world is still not perfect — and up to his expectations.
Trump has already done more than any other president and leader in modern times — including appointing competent people to delegate authority to — instead of the “Democratic” practice of always hiring people less capable than themselves — so as to seem that one is “the best and the brightest, and running circles around them” — as in the previous administration.
If the executive orders only last as long as he is president, that is four more years than would have happened otherwise — waiting for a body of hundreds to make that reality eternal. The way history works, is that nothing lasts forever, and so if one has four great years, that is four more than would have happened than waiting for “perfect” to happen. That sets a precedent for whatever follows.
Appreciate the fact and reality that Trump does make the whole world better — and we don’t have a senile, incompetent, “woke” person in charge of the nuclear arsenal.
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