President Donald Trump burst out of the gates into his second term with the speed of a Kentucky Derby winner. Executive orders turning the status quo upside have flown in gusts from the Oval Office ever since Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20.
Nothing like this has been witnessed since former President Franklin Roosevelt’s first 100 days in 1933 amid the Great Depression. Roosevelt summoned Congress into a three-month special session during which he presented and convinced the legislature to enact 15 major bills to revive the economy. At Roosevelt’s urging, Congress passed 77 laws during the first 100 days and revolutionized the role of government.
Trump has by and large ignored Congress with his blizzard of executive orders. That is a risky approach. Trump’s successor can repeal them with the stroke of a pen, just as Trump has already revoked many of former…
