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For me the positive is of all of this is that nothing he's doing has not been codified into law so it can all be undone
While you're not wrong, it's also not the whole story. The damage he's done will take decades to undo just to break even. Simply reversing his EOs won't raise the dead, or rebuilt the knowledge and skills that have been lost. Our grandchildren, if there be any, will still be dealing with the consequences of what has happened in the last 2 years.
Reversing his EO's won't raise the dead but I don't think there will be a problem getting the experienced people back nor does their knowledge disappear simply because our mid-grade have learned over the last decade.
We should be able to put the foundation of government back together fairly quickly so domestic issues will likely be resolved quickly, but the trust that our foreign policy is built on has been scrapped for decades
First order of business has to be legislation to keep this from ever happening again.
No more felons in the white-house....or congress for that matter. No more moneymaking by people who get a government paycheck. Period. If you make 175K/year, that is the top limit of what you should be allowed to earn over the course of your time in government..
if you're there to make money, nope.
I'd also propose moving as many agencies away from the purview of the executive and moving them to the legislative. Namely the department of education, department of energy, department of justice,and department of interior with the addition of dissolving the head position in favor of a council with a staggered ten years appointment per seat and strict job requirements within relevant fields IE a park ranger of 20 years is viable for a DoI seat but some podcaster will just get shot.
Maybe like the FBI and such where the directors get appointed for 10 year terms that go beyond a single presidential term...and it has to be near impossible for one president to remote another presidents confirmed appt. (Maybe make it something congress has to act on)
My point is to entirely remove the president from such decisions. Don't like who Congress chose? Tough shit. Note that ideally Congress will have been brought to heel by the electorate.
With a single executive order the next president can undo every single thing Trump has done.