Recovering journalist and Nashville-area public policy expert Clint Brewer said the depth of reform that has come as a result of actions taken during the first eight days of the Trump administration has been simply “remarkable.”
Brewer said the thoroughness of the executive actions President Donald Trump has signed since being sworn into office last Monday reflects “a tight four years of planning” by Trump and his team leading up to his first days in office.
“The depth and breadth of the change in these eight days by these executive orders has been astonishing and deep and clearly very well thought out,” Brewer said on Tuesday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
“The speed, the volume, and the thoroughness of the reform that’s just been cranked out in a week is remarkable…It’s the sum of four years worth of work…The depth of it, the detail of it is remarkable,” Brewer added.
Brewer said he is especially intrigued by the significant changes to public policy that have been in place for decades brought by Trump’s executive orders.
“What’s interesting to me as a citizen is just how deep executive orders go in determining the direction and power of the federal bureaucracy. I mean the core underpinnings of DEI policy, for example, go back to something Lyndon Johnson did in I think it was 1965. There’s literally decades of public policy promulgated by presidents that are being altered and changed, modernized, updated, improved or in some cases just made to go away. It’s been remarkable,” Brewer explained.
“There’s an argument that he’s changed more about American public policy in eight days than most presidents do in two terms,” Brewer added.
Brewer also pointed out how the messaging seen so far in the administration has shifted from Trump’s first term, as Brewer noted that there were some “competing worldviews” within Trump’s “original team” in 2017.
“When your work product is so thorough that the opposition almost doesn’t have time or bandwidth to react, it makes the messaging a lot easier. When your principle is so dialed in, you don’t have to do a lot of messaging. President Trump does a lot of his own messaging. He’s one of these principles that isn’t really letting a press secretary talk for them,” Brewer said.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
Photo “President Trump Talks with Media” by Dan Scavino.
