March 26, 2025
Week 20 — The Return
This week we had two devastating examples of obeying in advance, both of which will reverberate in their respective fields. On Thursday, law firm Paul Weiss reached a settlement with Trump. This comes a week after a federal judge put a halt on a similar Trump executive order targeting Perkins Coie, warning the order could damage the integrity of the entire legal profession, and intimidate lawyers from taking cases that impact Trump or his interests. Shortly after Paul Weiss capitulated, Trump doubled down with an even more extreme order.
March 19, 2025
Week 19 — The Return
This week marks another inflection point in Trump’s pace of breaking norms, and unfortunately a turn for the worse.
For the first few weeks after Trump’s inauguration (Weeks 12–15), his pace of breaking norms was frenetic. The regime used terms like “flood the zone” and “shock and awe” to describe their efforts to overwhelm the system with actions, many of which seemed to be plucked out of the pages of Project 2025.
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March 12, 2025
Week 18 — The Return
This week, the country’s angst and anger over mass firings, frozen federal funding, and cuts in entitlement programs converged on Elon Musk and his so-called DOGE. Republican lawmakers, who have encountered such severe pushback from their constituents back home that GOP leaders have advised them to no longer hold in-person events, met with Musk on Wednesday to discuss concerns. The next day, at his second cabinet meeting, Trump announced that cabinet secretaries, not Musk, would make decisions on staffing cuts. It was later reported by the Times that even at that meeting, Musk had heated confrontations with at least two cabinet secretaries.
March 26, 2025
Week 20 — The Return
This week we had two devastating examples of obeying in advance, both of which will reverberate in their respective fields. On Thursday, law firm Paul Weiss reached a settlement with Trump. This comes a week after a federal judge put a halt on a similar Trump executive order targeting Perkins Coie, warning the order could damage the integrity of the entire legal profession, and intimidate lawyers from taking cases that impact Trump or his interests. Shortly after Paul Weiss capitulated, Trump doubled down with an even more extreme order.
March 19, 2025
Week 19 — The Return
This week marks another inflection point in Trump’s pace of breaking norms, and unfortunately a turn for the worse.
For the first few weeks after Trump’s inauguration (Weeks 12–15), his pace of breaking norms was frenetic. The regime used terms like “flood the zone” and “shock and awe” to describe their efforts to overwhelm the system with actions, many of which seemed to be plucked out of the pages of Project 2025.
March 12, 2025
Week 18 — The Return
This week, the country’s angst and anger over mass firings, frozen federal funding, and cuts in entitlement programs converged on Elon Musk and his so-called DOGE. Republican lawmakers, who have encountered such severe pushback from their constituents back home that GOP leaders have advised them to no longer hold in-person events, met with Musk on Wednesday to discuss concerns. The next day, at his second cabinet meeting, Trump announced that cabinet secretaries, not Musk, would make decisions on staffing cuts. It was later reported by the Times that even at that meeting, Musk had heated confrontations with at least two cabinet secretaries.
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