Hit the ground running on Day One

Frank Miele, in RCP wrote the following, on the topic of unity vs. compromise, and whether both are possible simultaneously;

...This time around, Trump knows he only has four years to fulfill his plans. So he’s moving with lightning speed to do exactly what Abraham Lincoln accomplished in his four years in the White House: unite the country by demonstrating strength, wisdom and patriotism.

This ambitious goal perhaps explains Trump’s seemingly antagonistic selection of Cabinet secretaries. Matt Gaetz for attorney general? Robert Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services? Pete Hegseth for Defense? Tulsi Gabbard to oversee the intelligence agencies, including the CIA? There were other qualified candidates for all those positions, but would they have fought as fiercely as these picks to revolutionize the agencies they would helm?

Turning back to our Civil War model, after first selecting traditional generals who were consensus choices, Lincoln decided to go with his gut and promoted Ulysses S. “Unconditional Surrender” Grant and “scorched earth” William Sherman to bring the enemy to their heels. Trump seems to be after the same kind of unsparing determination. Go big or go home.

There's an interesting point in the first sentence of that quote; he only has four years. While that is true, a highly successful four years could lead to another four or eight years of a Republican presidency (likely with JD Vance as the candidate). That would be great, but it requires a great deal of success, across multiple streams of issues; inflation, GDP growth, government efficiency and waste reduction, deep state reduction, natural resource development, border security, crime reduction, military strength, and international peace to mention some of the most prominent ones. 

That's a tall order that necessitates Day One readiness and an agreeable congress. Any Republican not prepared to support the president's agenda has to be dealt with in the most forceful way possible. President elect Trump would be well served to start aligning allies and building a solid support base in both the senate and the house, immediately.  That's something that would go on behind the scenes and we are likely not going to see in the public eye.

The other part of the Day One readiness is the Executive Orders on minute one. I have no doubt the president is already preparing or even mostly prepared for that one already. 

If the president's agenda is rolling from Day One there will be strong results in two years.  The president will be able to retrain control and perhaps even grow the GOP majorities in the house and senate.  The only way to impress the left out of their haze of dream-lies is to Make America Great Again, and quickly. Good results will require rapid movement. It's a snowball effect; good results will help accelerate further good results, which all will improve electoral success.  The good news is it's entirely plausible. It's a tall order, but the right team is being assembled.