When President Donald Trump returned to the White House, the speed and breadth of his administration’s actions caught his political opponents off guard. 

Critics and supporters alike called Trump’s flurry of executive orders and unrivaled dominance of the news cycle “shock and awe,” a phrase typically reserved for aerial bombing campaigns like the one that helped bring down Saddam Hussein’s government in Iraq.

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