Trump 2.0 has issued executive orders at a blistering pace, attempting a strategy of “shock and awe”. Some of his EO’s are good, some are bad, some don’t amount to much (if you ask me.)

They’ve had several false starts; e.g., attempting to cut spending by freezing huge categories of grants, etc.

Which illustrates an important truth: trying to make massive changes to the US government is like trying to replace the alternator on your car while you’re cruising at 80 mph on the interstate. You can’t FREEZE our federal government. You can’t “go back to zero” and build from the ground up. The Leviathan is too complicated and too insinuated into the lives of too many voters. Any sweeping change will hurt (or frighten) too many voters, and generate huge amounts of pushback.

And Trump is extremely sensitive to pushback. Witness, for example, the fact that in this past campaign, he never (or almost never) mentioned the greatest achievement of his first term.