It's hard to believe we are now ending just the second week of this new administration, which feels like several months already. But that's all part of the ideological blitzkrieg, right? Flood the zone.

The lack of any coherent response from Democrats to some of the blatantly illegal and gonzo stuff the White House and Herr Musk are now pulling is staggering. But it's a useful signal that it might make more sense for strategists to focus their efforts on identifying the vanishingly few senior GOP lawmakers who still have a spine.

You know, so-called "Party of Lincoln" members who have some vague recollection of the fact that we live in a republic that is to be governed for, by and of the people. And that pretty much the whole point of the Constitution is to make it so that no one branch of government -- but particularly the executive -- can seize too much power. Perhaps appealing to their sense of self preservation is the best strategy going forward.