"Flood the zone. Move fast and break things. DOGE the civil service. War against woke. Liberation Day tariffs. Big Beautiful Bill. The longest government shutdown in history. The "Peace President" bombing seven countries -plus fishing boats in the Caribbean. Bulldoze the East Wing, slap gold and the Trump name on every wall in reach. Barrages of unhinged Truth Social rants, including a Christmas blessing to "the radical left scum.""
""Elect me and you'll never have to vote again," Trump promised the faithful on the stump. A year later, he's still handing out Trump 2028 bumper stickers and consulting with Alan Dershowitz, a fellow Epstein reveler, on how he could run for a third term. Consider this trolling the libs. At 79, the oldest president in history, Trump can barely stay awake now. What's clear is that on taking office, armed with the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 Blueprint (that Trump characteristically lied he knew nothing about) Trump and his operatives have implanted core elements for an autocratic reign."
The first year of the second Trump term combined chaotic public provocations with aggressive consolidation of executive authority. The administration invoked emergency and national-security powers, asserted an invented popular mandate, and relied on the unitary executive theory to override legal and constitutional limits. Congressional powers over spending and taxation were usurped through actions like shuttering USAID and imposing tariffs. Military force and foreign operations expanded with little restraint. Republican lawmakers faced threats and retaliation that disciplined majorities. Lower federal courts provided uneven checks while operatives and policy blueprints implanted structural elements intended to enable an autocratic regime.
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