The Most Important Lesson of Trump's First Hundred Days

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/robert-reich/113712/the-most-important-lesson-of-trump-s-first-hundred-days

The Most Important Lesson of Trump’s First Hundred Days
by Robert Reich | April 30, 2025 - 5:36am

— from Robert Reich's Substack

Friends,

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No modern president has done as much as Trump has done in his first hundred days — to trash human rights, undermine our alliances, threaten the independence of our universities and the press, stymie progress on climate change, decimate our civil service, shaft the poor, harm the working class, worsen the economy, and leave much of our government in tatters.

And his efforts to amass power have ridden roughshod over the Constitution, ignored the federal courts, usurped the authority of Congress, and turned the Justice Department into a sewer for personal vengeance.

The most important lesson of Trump’s first hundred days is that the test of a successful president after 100 days has nothing to do with how much he gets done or how much power he accumulates.

The real test is how much better off are the people, and how much stronger is our democracy.

By these measures, the second term of Trump is beyond a doubt the worst travesty in American history.

[rampartd]

1. a good quote from reich

The real test is how much better off are the people, and how much stronger is our democracy.

[Frasier Balzov]

2. I keep asking myself why.

Can Trump genuinely have all these incorrect ideas about what's best for the nation?

Obviously, any damage motivated by greed and revenge is intentional and not accidental.

But what's with appointing all these kooks and crackpots to the Cabinet? A tacit admission perhaps that only the mentally ill can be loyal to him?

Is good faith to be found anywhere in this administration or is it all just blatant destruction and impunity?

We'd better see a glimmer of sanity among the Republicans in Congress before the mid-terms or that majority is toast.*

*(Assuming some basic things about suffrage and vote counting, which may be assuming too much at this point.)

[Martin Eden]

3. Worst travesty in American history. This POtuS[ met expectations.

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Among those who weren't useful idiots.

[Martin68]

4. It is also the mot incompetent administration in history. They have achieved none of their stated goals.

[Clouds Passing]

8. 50% done with P25. So they are getting it done.

“Spoken as I shake my head in disgust!”

[Escurumbele]

5. We all know that but, who is going to stop the madness, how, when? The more time he sits on the thrown

the worst it will get.

People don't listen, they never think it can happen to them until it does.

Because most people don't pay attention, because most people are ignorant of other parts in the World they don't know how regimes work, they think regimes like the USA administration is trying to become "make mistakes", some even think "they are incompetent", and the truth is, THEY ARE VERY COMPETENT, and NO, THEY ARE NOT MAKING MISTAKES, they are creating chaos, they are destroying the institutions, they will destroy the education system because they need ignorant uneducated people to rule for ever, so unless the forces that be don't put a stop to this madness, the USA will become another Venezuela, another Cuba.

I know everyone here understands the urgency that people in power, and that could be the military, put a stop to this.

[Initech]

6. The worst first 100 days of any administration in US history can be summed up like this:

[DENVERPOPS]

7. He didn't even have to think about

what to do..........He was given the entire "to do" list by 2025 and Putin.............

Any thinking on his part, was 100% aimed at how to make even more money for Himself, The Uber Rich, and The Corporations, in his second term......