"AP Photo/Alex Brandon President Donald Trump's second term wasn't governed by chaos so much as saturationa deliberate strategy of stacking controversies faster than accountability could form. Pardons rewrote history, firings eliminated oversight, diplomacy became spectacle, language became loyalty, access became enforcement. The media couldn't ignore it, which was always the point. By year's end, the pattern was unmistakable but nearly impossible to hold in view."
"Each month brought revelation and erasure in equal measure, velocity replacing consequence, spectacle replacing governance. The trap, of course, is that documenting this becomes part of the pattern. Every timeline proves the strategy worked. Every recap demonstrates he dominated coverage. The media couldn't look awayand by covering it all, became the distribution system for the chaos. There's no neutral position when attention itself is the battlefield."
Relentless controversies and rapid personnel changes overwhelmed normal mechanisms of oversight and consequence. Pardons, firings, and purges rewrote institutional memory and removed accountability. Diplomacy and language were converted into spectacle and loyalty, while access and media coverage became tools of enforcement. High-profile scandals cycled quickly into background noise—January 6 pardons, the Epstein files, White House ballroom construction, even an assassination—so that revelations were repeatedly erased before consequences could land. Courts repeatedly blocked unconstitutional orders, yet enforcement lagged as attention shifted. Media attention functioned as distribution for the churn, making velocity itself an instrument of governance.
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