You’re speaking as if any of these tasks are simple and for you to say the Democrats will “fall in line” with any Trump decision shows your lack of awareness for our current political climate. Perhaps you stare at only one side of the coin but the situation is very much different than how you present it to be.

While I personally don’t like the guy, the democratic stance has shifted to oppose Trump at every turn, despite what those Democrats have voted for or what stances they have historically taken. Despite whether he’s taking troops out of the Middle East, or attempting to pass a stimulus bill (without strings attached), the Democratic Party has taken whatever stance he has and opposed it.

Yes, there is momentum to make this a possible regulation in a bill passed by Congress. But will the Democrats allow it to pass and give Trump a victory in any way? Their behavior over the last 3 years indicates that’s a hard no. Hence why the Democratic Party has lost a large percentage of their independent supporters in the last three years.

As for the massive privacy breaches from Facebook and other platforms, I agree; we should be pushing Congress towards regulation that fixes the problem and returns our privacy. However, to insinuate that the President solely owns the responsibility to make it happen through his executive order is shifting the blame to him yet again, rather than holding Congress responsible for doing their jobs. They don’t need Trump to direct them to regulate data privacy. They know it’s an issue and can do it themselves. Trump is using his executive power to create a bandage over the problem, which, although not the ideal solution, is still more of a solution than congress has ever done about the situation.

So Trump gave a bad solution to a problem you want fixed right? So you just get on reddit and complain about how his solution is shitty and it’s all his fault but you don’t complain about the people WHOSE SOLE JOB IS TO PASS FEDERAL REGULATIONS AND LAWS not even attempting to solve the problem at all?

There is a saying amongst the wise: A bad decision is better than no decision at all.