The Tom and Daisy Presidency

The second Trump administration appears to have learned some lessons from the first. For instance, even when courts eventually strike down the administration’s policies, there are tactics that can keep those policies in effect long enough to do quite a bit of damage.

The courts can do only so much when the goal of imposing a policy isn’t to win as much as it is to break things and, as F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in “The Great Gatsby,” to “let other people clean up the mess they had made.”