Pundits are confused about what to make of the first 100 days of the second Trump administration.

Supporters believe that President Donald Trump is enacting changes rapidly enough to overwhelm his opposition, a strategy known as “flooding the zone.” This leaves his detractors feeling unsure of how to respond.

As a result, the country witnesses a rise in daily instances of Democratic name-calling, vandalism towards Tesla vehicles, immature outbursts from congressional witnesses, violent protests in support of illegal immigrants who are felons, demonstrations advocating for criminals like M-13 gang members, human traffickers, and attackers, as well as violent students with visas praising extremist groups like Hamas.

In contrast, opponents either claim Trump’s first three months are either directionless chaos or a Hitlerian nightmare or both.

But what is really happening?

One, Trump is finally addressing the problems that proverbially “cannot go on forever, and so they won’t go on.”

When, if ever, would the left have closed the southern border?

After 10 million, 30 million, 50 million illegal aliens?

How many more criminal illegal entrants was the Biden administration willing to allow into American neighborhoods — 500,000?

1 million?

3 million?

How long was the world simply going to ignore the human destruction on the doorstep of Europe?

Would former President Joe Biden or former Vice President Kamala Harris have sought a Ukraine War cease-fire?

Or would it have taken another 1.5 million, 3 million or even 5 million more dead, wounded, and missing Ukrainians and Russians?

Nor did past administrations ever seek a solution to the massive national debt, much less the uncontrollable budget and trade deficits.

Unlike his predecessors, Trump is not deferring tough decisions to be dealt with by future administrations. Instead, he is taking decisive actions now, setting a new precedent in presidential governance.

All moaned that China was piling up huge trade surpluses while denying its own population the usual modern safety net.

They knew Beijing’s aim was to use the trillions of dollars in trade surpluses to build a new massive military, a greater arsenal of nuclear bombs and a new imperial Belt and Road overseas empire.

Yet no administration did anything but greenlight American offshoring while ignoring Chinese trade cheating and technology theft.

Indeed, prior presidencies appeased and enriched China on the foolish belief that such indulgence would lead to Chinese prosperity, and with such Western-style affluence, soon a globalized, democratic and supposedly friendly China.

In sum, we just witnessed all at once a 100-day, 360-degree effort to address all the existential challenges that we knew were unsustainable but were either afraid or incompetent to address.

Second, the administration apparently wants to confront the source of these crises and believes it is the progressive project.

The left maintains real political power not by grass-roots popularity, but rather by unelected institutional clout. The party of democracy uses anti-democratic means to achieve its ends of perpetual control.

It wages lawfare through the weaponization of the state, local and federal courts.

It exercises executive power through cherry-picked federal district and circuit judges and their state and local counterparts.

The permanent bureaucracies and huge federal workforce are mostly left-wing, unionized and weaponized by a progressive apparat.

Their supreme directive is to amalgamate legislative, judicial and executive power into the hands of the unelected Anthony Faucis, Jim Comeys and Lois Lerners of the world — and thus to override or ignore both popular plebiscites and the work of the elected Congress.

Over 90% of the media — legacy, network, social and state — are left-wing.

Their mission is not objectivity but, admittedly, indoctrination.

Academia is the font of the progressive project; 90% of the professoriate are left-wing and activist — explaining why campuses believe they are above the rules and laws of the Constitution, the Supreme Court and the US Congress.

Add into the mix the blue-chip Accela corridor law firms and the globalized corporate and revolving-door political elite.

The net result: Almost everything the vast majority of Americans and their elected representatives did not want — far-left higher education, a Pravda media, biological men destroying women’s sports, an open border, 30 million illegal aliens, massive debt, a weaponized legal system and a politicized Pentagon — became the new culture of America.

So, Trump is not just confronting unaddressed existential crises but also the root causes of why, when and how they become inevitable and nearly unsolvable.

His answer is a messy, knock-down-drag-out counterrevolution to reboot the country back to the middle, where it once was and where the Founders believed it should remain.

His right and left opponents call such pushback chaotic, disruptive and out of control.

But the counterrevolution appears disorderly and upsetting, mostly to those who originally birthed the chaos; it certainly does not to the majority of Americans who finally wanted an end to the madness.