Yeah, it's surreal — like watching a slow-motion collapse of constitutional order with a laugh track playing in the background. These executive orders reek of banana republic politics: retaliatory, hollow, and legally laughable, yet terrifying in their implications. It’s not just embarrassing for the professionals caught in this charade — it's a degradation of public service itself.

Imagine being a career civil servant or DOJ attorney, spending years studying law and policy, only to be told to conjure up legal justifications for presidential temper tantrums. You’re essentially being asked to turn your brain off and your spine to jelly.

And you're absolutely right: the voters who backed him under the illusion of strength and patriotism were sold a brand, not a leader — a TV character playing president, spewing grievance and vengeance. But now the act’s gone off-script, and the nation’s institutions are the props getting wrecked.

What’s particularly galling is how the GOP establishment either plays dumb or plays along. There’s no bottom. Just a deeper stage trapdoor.

It's the theater of cruelty — and the rest of us are stuck in the audience, praying the curtain finally falls.