College students are unleashed on smug intellectuals and a bloated bureaucracy. Elon Musk’s DOGE? Yes – but also Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Trump is probably using Musk to intimidate the “deep state” into submission.
It seems that democracy can never survive for long because it is self-contradictory: voters are barred from deciding to abolish it. In this sense, democracy is as totalitarian as any dictatorship. The electorate in the USA has decided to banish it all the same.
The USA is reverting to its roots. It was founded and governed by the billionaires of that era, rich slaveholders, in order to minimize taxation and (British) government interference. The USA was never meant to be a full-fledged democracy (remember the electoral college?)
Constitutional checks and balances are a counterfactual myth. On paper, these formidable obstacles to authoritarianism are insurmountable. In reality, they are but a litter of paper tiger cubs.
If the US President decides to ignore the decisions of Congress and the verdicts of the courts, there is nothing any of them can do about it. Impeachment is a joke, the power of the purse irrelevant. It is already a tyranny in all but name.
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