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This is the essence of short-termism. Even if we accept that "Trump isn't doing enough" is a better message, undermining the idea that the president has to follow the law in order to win a news cycle is hardly a win at all. https://twitter.com/TVietor08/status/1292524159747018752
Not to mention the incredibly insulting embedded assumption here, which is that Americans are too stupid to understand a message that's "These orders may be illegal AND they don't solve the problem."
Every single person who says "Democrats are just focusing on kitchen-table issues, which is a better message!" is implicitly saying "Real people are too dumb to care about the law, unlike myself." It treats Americans like idiots, incapable of seeing past their own bank accounts.
Oh, also: if you say "I don't care if Trump's executive orders are illegal, that's a question for the lawyers - my problem is that they're too small," you're literally just daring him to break the law in bigger and bolder ways.
The pundit class has made itself deeply complicit in Trump's corruption, even if they don't personally engage in it, because they've convinced themselves that any corruption or lawbreaking without an immediate financial consequence for voters is a political nullity best ignored.
We've become a society like Russia, where corruption is just the order of the day, a reality that the powerful are supposed to acclimate to.
People's natural aversion to lawbreaking has been inverted into a marker of naivete, while tolerance of corruption indicates savviness.
People's natural aversion to lawbreaking has been inverted into a marker of naivete, while tolerance of corruption indicates savviness.
