So on Wednesday I did a panel, with three other colleagues, on the first ten weeks of the Trump Administration. I kind of wish it had been televised, as I think it would have been a boost for the Trump Administration’s policies.

As you might imagine, the other panelists were for the most part more negative on what’s going on than I am, given that I’m not really negative at all. But one of the presentations was just a long list of horrors brought on by the Trump administration in terms of defunding universities, NGOs, and big law firms, deporting illegals, and so on that made me want to exclaim, like the popular meme, I already voted for him, you don’t have to sell me!

The awfulness of these steps wasn’t self-evident to me, although it was kind of assumed, and I doubt it would have been self-evident to an audience of the general public either.

As one of the other presenters noted, Trump is hardly alone in starting office with a flurry of executive orders; a lovely graphic of presidencies going back to FDR had Trump in the lead for most EOs in the first hundred days so far, but in his first term he was comfortably within the pack. And Trump has a lot to do, and not a lot of time to do it in. By November, we’ll be heading into midterms.