How Trump is succeeding.

[kstewart33]

This is a sobering read (and one we should all read).

Washington Post:

Despite the chaos and the growing credibility gap, Trump is systematically succeeding in his quest to “deconstruct the administrative state,” as his chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon puts it. He’s pursued the most aggressive regulatory rollback since Ronald Reagan, especially on environmental issues, with a series of bills and executive orders. He’s placed devoted ideologues into perches from which they can stop aggressively enforcing laws that conservatives don’t like. By not filling certain posts, he’s ensuring that certain government functions will simply not be performed. His budget proposal spotlighted his desire to make as much of the federal bureaucracy as possible wither on the vine.

Any day now, Trump is expected to sign an executive order aimed at undoing Obama’s Clean Power Plan and end a moratorium on federal-land coal mining. This would ensure that the U.S. does not meet its commitments under the Paris climate agreement.
The administration is also preparing new executive orders to reexamine all 14 U.S. free trade agreements, including NAFTA, and the president could start to sign some of them this week.

Seven more bills to undo Obama regulations have passed both chambers of Congress and will soon be signed by the president. Among them: Rolling back worker safety regulations to track and reduce workplace injuries and deaths, reducing disclosure requirements for federal contractors and abolishing a rule that restricted certain kinds of hunting, such as trapping and aerial shooting, inside national wildlife refuges in Alaska.

Several more are in the pipeline. The Republican Senate last Thursday voted to repeal rules aimed at protecting consumers' online data from Internet providers. Once the House passes the measure, and the president signs it, it will be vastly easier for broadband companies to sell and share your personal usage information for advertising purposes. (Juliet Eilperin and Darla Cameron created a graphic to show all the ways Trump has rolled back Obama’s rules.

There's much more at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/03/27/daily-202-how-trump-s-presidency-is-succeeding/58d88409e9b69b72b2551039/?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_daily202-1150a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.5c6e2701fa3b

[Warpy]

1. Yeah, he'll try to rule by imperial fiat and get slapped down by the courts

and, one hopes, the Congress as he continually overreaches his official powers.

So as long as the author of this piece is content with success that might be ephemeral, he can continue to write fluff about Dolt45.

[BBG]

3. Did you read it?

It is not a fluff piece and is a good read.

[enough]

7. Your faith in the system is delightful. Does it include watching what has already

been passed and signed, day by day?

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Our lazy ass Press refuses to do

their jobs. Might lose advertisers.

[PdxSean]

4. Executive order and missing heads.

Short version of the article: 1) Rules and policies created by executive order may, generally, be taken away by executive order; 2) headless agencies are as effective as cars without steering wheels; and 3) you don't need a licensed contractor to destroy the barn (sledgehammers like Ben Carson and Betsy Voss will do).

Hopefully democrats will work to glue Trump's actions to the Republican Party, but rest assured that Putin's online trolls will tell democrats they need not worry about any of this because the article was clearly written by a concern troll.

[0rganism]

5. he's "succeeding" the way an arsonist "succeeds" in burning your house

by the time he's done "succeeding", i suspect our remaining population will be more amenable to (re)constructing a regulatory state.

[PdxSean]

6. I prefer your analogy of an arsonist. I think I'll steal it.

And I hope you are right that after Trump and republicans are done pillaging America, people will be wiser about the need for regulations.

[Demsrule86]

8. This can all be reversed after we elect a Democrat.