Team Trump’s Addiction to Overkill

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Much has been written about the speed and presidential authoritarianism that has characterized the early days of the second Trump administration. But there’s another hallmark that’s becoming more obvious each day: a commitment, almost an addiction, to overkill in how Team Trump goes about promoting its policies and punishing its perceived enemies. Its operational slogan could be: “Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.” Among the most recent examples have...