Happy Friday, Rebuild subscribers!
In the coming weeks, I'll continue exploring how the Democratic Party should go about revitalizing its agenda and reclaiming power. But for now, I'd like to direct your attention to my colleagues' insightful coverage of Donald Trump's first week in office. The second Trump administration has already generated a ton of (largely lamentable) policy change. At Vox, we've sought to identify Trump's most consequential actions and elucidate what they might augur for the next four years.
Ian Millhiser explains that Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship is blatantly unconstitutional — but that doesn't necessarily mean the Supreme Court's conservative majority will block it.
Zack Beauchamp details four executive orders that threaten democracy. He argues this barrage of authoritarian initiatives represents a test: If the president succeeds in implementing these measures, his attempts to bend the constitutional order to his will could grow more ambitious.
Christian Paz digs into whether "the entire nation is rapidly unifying" behind Trump's agenda, as the president claimed in his inaugural address. (Although Trump is famously cautious about overstating his popular support, it appears that he might have fallen prey to hyperbole this one time.)
Andrew Prokop lays out six lessons from Trump's first day in office — among them, that Trump believes that January 6 rioters who assaulted police officers in 2021 should be let out of prison.
Finally, Naveena Sadasivam and Joseph Winters summarize the various ways that Trump has already rolled back Joe Biden's climate agenda.
Have a great weekend (relatively speaking)!
