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![Screenshot from linked New York Times up ad by Ezra Klein, with words highlighted: “… if you give [the media] too many places it needs to look, all at once, if you keep it moving from one thing to the next - no coherent opposition can emerge. It is hard to even think coherently.
Donald Trump's first two weeks in the White House have folowed Bannon's strategy like a script. The flood is the point. The overwhelm is the point. The message wasn't in any one executive order or announcement. It was in the cumulative effect of all of them. The sense that this is Trump's country now. This is his
government now. It follows his will. It does what he wants. If Trump tells the state to stop spending money, the money stops. If he says that birthright citizenship is over, it's over.
Or so he wants you to think. In Trump's first term, we were told: Don't normalize him. In his second, the task is different: Don't believe him.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hf3tgiqwvu45ajugrei27fpx/bafkreiavac3ds3atxftenuay5eygwcwrlytma2cznmpbhxhh4umt6scqxq)
