Yep. Showing vigor and resolve, and also demonstrating that he was as bad as Biden and co said. Because if you're dumb, you might work backwards from what happened to "oh they were bullshitting, if he was really that bad he'd be in jail"

The EU cut a deal with Trump on tariffs, hoping it would get him off their backs. Hopefully they have learned the lesson: any concession simply invites more demands. The only way to beat a bully is to tell him to go to hell.

There is no recalibrated or sanitized way to conduct the war that Trump and Stephen Miller are waging on American cities right now. That’s because it’s a campaign of deliberate terror.
The policy *is* the terror, and the terror *is* the policy.

newrepublic.com/article/2053...

You cannot credibly claim that you’re supporting Gavin Newsom in lieu of any other viable option right now. You are doing it because for some inexplicable reason you have failed to notice he has horrendous political instincts (beyond hiring a good social media team he does not deserve).

Republican states go along because it's a cult and they lose anyways, ice murders in blue areas of swing states, true blue states ignored.
The mechanism is violence. There is already no legal mechanism for what ICE is doing and it is still happening. What mechanism do you have to stop him?