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The author is no friend of Trump..or us...but it is a good analysis anyway. The problem for the Progressives (of both parties) is that they are watching this force of nature hit them like a tsunami and are just standing there saying, “it’s not real, it’s not real”.

Some Progs are trying to snap them out of it, but they are locked into their illusion of invincibility, that somehow they will cause him to resign because they are unhappy and breaking some windows.

Not just Progs, some Establishment GOP'ers I know are vocalizing anger at Trump for "moving too fast" and "he doesn't need to do so much" and that "he needs to take a couple days off"

That bespeaks a misunderstanding of business where a day lost is an opportunity lost. It also misunderstands that opposition to the left is like war, and requires total annihilation in a Patton-like manner. Trump is doing it. I can't friggin believe it, but he's doing it.

They're hurling every insult, trying every tactic, throwing up every barrier. Politicians would curl into a ball and beg for forgiveness from the press. Trump's rolling right over them like the III Army.

These are historic days.

>>Not just Progs, some Establishment GOP’ers I know

Progs are in both parties. Some are not as socially liberal as others, so they can appear somewhat conservative. But the tell is their insistence on the transnational agenda over the well- being of the USA as a whole (not just the economics).

“Not just Progs, some Establishment GOP’ers I know are vocalizing anger at Trump for “moving too fast” and “he doesn’t need to do so much” and that “he needs to take a couple days off””

I’ve actually heard something not unrelated from actual conservatives (not GOPe/progs) of the older persuasion. They’re not angry at all, but they’re expressing similar sentiments along the lines of “maybe he should take a couple days off” or “maybe he should slow down, he’s going too fast.”

These are also typically the older people who have problems with change and technology and updates. I’ve explained to them that this is the best strategy and as disconcerted as Trump’s pace has been for them, it’s far, far worse for the liberals.

These are historic days.

I truly hope we are witnessing the end of the post-WW2 order:

1) A monolithic party press. If you don't think they are monolithic, just look at the speed with which they all adopt the same meme (Trump's dark speech, etc).

2) The official truth (lie). The press doesn't just tell you what happened, they tell you what to think about it. The original intent was to expunge things like anti-semitism from public discourse. It morphed into the official lie and fake news, culminating in Obama lamenting the lack of "a common set of facts", none of which were true.

3) Politicians kissing the ring of the media. They had no choice, but the idea being that an apolitical media could filter out dangerous politicians and ideas. But they have turned into an arm of the democratic party. A republican who embraces the official lie and accepts their power can really only implement their agenda.

Trump doesn't need the media, he explodes the official lie, and exposes their rampant functioning as a state party organ.

The real question is whether we are witnessing a man or a true political change. With Reagan, we were only seeing a man. With GHWB, things returned to what they were before Reagan took office in terms of the direction of the nation.