The commission can ram this policy down the politicians' allegedly unwilling throats.
Now, argue conservatives, the president needs to pass the second Gingrich test by ramming his policies through, using the grassroots energy that characterised the Gingrich revolution ten years ago.But if conservatives are inspired by Mr Bush's second-term agenda, they are also dismayed by what has been happening to their party.
And unrest in the Middle East should ram home to policy makers the wisdom of using natural resources at home to reduce dependence on imports.
Environmentalists have complained that the Trump administration is weaponizing the California fires to ram through its policy of opening public lands and ecologically sensitive areas to corporate interests.
Some of his supporters will want him to use this enviable position to ram through pet policies like banning abortion or bringing back capital punishment.
And because the evangelical churches are decentralised, and somewhat leaderless at the national level, it will be hard for any populist to mobilise them against a president they like and respect.Attempts to ram conservative social policies into law look inevitable.
We all know how the shock doctrine works: during times of crisis, whether real or manufactured, our elites are able to ram through unpopular policies that are detrimental to the majority under cover of emergency.
Under scrutiny will be the events of the last week: the mayor's 11th-hour firing of three members of the city's Panel for Education Policy, and his ramming through a policy that is expected to hold back as many as 15,000 third-grade students in the first year.
After 9/11, Bush and his neoconservative advisors abandoned any hints at Herbert Walkerealism realisuchsuch as W's early aversion to "nation-building"), instead exploiting the conjoined fear and ambition of that moment to ram through a foreign policy aimed at making the U.S. an "imperium of values" (columnist Ben Wattenberg's memorable phrase).
This week, he fired members of the public school governance board who disagreed with his new initiative to stop social promotion and rammed through that controversial policy.
