yFirst of all I think everyone is too infatuated with an executive branch that doesn’t have the power or authority to change the world in a day. Our structure of government is designed to prevent any one branch of government from holding total power and authority.
Trump has basically told us what he will do on day one, which is start to reenact all the policies that were working during his first presidency. These will be done by executive action, but his most difficult task will be getting policies passed through congress to become legislation.
I think in the beginning, Kamala would continue the policies that Biden has put in place the past four years. She is basically an incumbent, as Biden was never truly running the country to begin with. With each significant event, such as a shooting, major weather related disaster, etc., she will continue the playbook of pointing fingers at the “extremist” republicans who don’t want to fall in line with the leftist, bigger government, more control agenda.
Most of her actions as President will be reactionary to current events and social issues. She will speak of banning assault weapons which she can’t even define, codifying Roe v. Wade and moving toward solar and wind generated power, and electric vehicles to slow climate change. She may take some small executive actions on day one, which will all be deemed as giant achievements by most of the media. It’s hard to say what those would be, but they will most likely be socially driven and not for the betterment of safety or the economy.
On the foreign policy front, she will continue giving billions to Ukraine. If the Israel- Hamas war is still ongoing, she will take a tougher anti-Israel stance than her predecessor, perhaps going as far as calling Netanyahu a war criminal, but not necessarily calling for his arrest. Most of what she says and does will be virtue signaling.
What some fail to realize or comprehend is the executive branch of the government cannot make law. They can join or remove the country from treaties. They can take executive actions to temporarily change our daily lives, but those actions have to be put into law by congress to be permanent. Once passed into law, the Supreme Court has the ability to determine whether the law is constitutional. Checks and balances- this is the beauty of the basic construct of our democratic republic, and any true American on either side should be proud of this.