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It may be fitting that President Trump has been in a Napoleonic mode of late.

Trump is a little less than a third of the way into his first 100 days in office, a measurement common in American politics since former President Franklin Roosevelt used it for his first administration in 1933. FDR took office in March of that year and called Congress back into session for a whirlwind of work in which much of the New Deal was put in place.

The frenzy of activity included some things that are with us still today (the repeal of prohibition and, astonishingly, the Tennessee Valley Authority), some things that were popular (the Civilian Conservation Corps and subsidized mortgages), and some major failures that no doubt prolonged and worsened the Great Depression, particularly in rural America.

However it turned out, they were all very busy in Washington in spring 1933. To a country that was in the grip of pure economic misery — 25 percent unemployment and crippling bank failures — busy no doubt seemed appropriate. Since then, though, every newly elected president has used or been abused by the 100-day standard, whether the world was on fire or not.

But before “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” Napoleon Bonaparte was the most famous man of 100 days. That was the period between his restoration as ruler of France in March 1815 after his exile on Elba to his defeat at Waterloo. And he was busy, too, in a series of bold, audacious moves against his gathering enemies. It all went very well, right up until it didn’t.

Democrats now contemplate their current miserable state and wonder what to do about a Trump administration that is mowing them down like they were Prussian cannon fodder. The Blue Team is out there protesting on behalf of government workers, not the most sympathetic victims to the broader electorate, and dreaming of a day when they can impeach Trump for a third time.

How’s that going? While Republicans only kind of dislike the way their members of Congress are doing their jobs, Democrats are pretty well disgusted. While the congressional GOP managed a 79 percent approval rating with their voters nationally in a new Quinnipiac poll, Democrats could only get to 40 percent among their own people.

Trump, meanwhile, seems to be having the time of his life.

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