"EO is a wishlist that doesn't affect the criminal code." True, and reasonable to suppose that the WH knows this. So the next question is why, and the answer seems to be the appearance of protection of power. Supporters aren't looking at outcomes, only appearances. It's brand marketing.
Yup. Everything is branding for a brand that has idiotic followers and zero substance.
They still have control of the government, though. Simply dismissing them as insubstantial risks the deception of projected power successfully concealing some other act they can in fact execute unopposed.
That’s not what I said, either. The useful idiot acts following the fascists-in-suit who surround him. One shall downplay their malicious acts and intent at their peril. Coming from a country that had descended into competitive autocracy under Orbán, US’s gradual slide was visible from the moon.
The original point was about how the US butler media plays into their hand, reporting the he-said-this-today “news” without fact-checking.