Trump's second term employs a 'shock and awe' strategy from Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine to overwhelm institutional safeguards. Project 2025 floods the system with executive orders, agency restructuring, and policy reversals so rapidly that public resistance becomes impossible.
This approach causes outrage fatigue — leaving citizens unable to process the pace of change. Media coverage struggles to keep pace. The Constitution is treated as an obstacle rather than a governing document.