Why would we expect anything different? President Donald Trump’s transition team and outside allies have been signaling for weeks that they were planning to “flood the zone” in the first 100 days of the new administration. Former senior adviser and activist Steve Bannon had pushed this idea during Trump’s first term, telling author and journalist Michael Lewis, “the Democrats don’t matter. The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.” He called it “shock and awe” which was described by historian Douglas Brinkley as: [B]izarre, rapid-fire presidential policy making …every day there’s a new, radical initiative, and it doesn’t give journalists or the public a chance to get a grip on what just happened. Current senior adviser Stephen Miller has refined the idea for the second term. He recently told the NY Times that he believes that “those he regards as Mr. Trump’s enemies — Democrats, the media, groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and portions of the federal bureaucracy — are depleted and only have so much bandwidth for outrage and opposition. Mr. Miller has told people that the goal is to overwhelm them with a blitz of activity.” Russell Vought, Project 2025 author of the first 180 days memorandum and Trump’s pick for the Office of Management and Budget has described the political opposition as “enemy fire that’s coming over the target,” while urging allies to be “fearless at the point of attack” and calling his…