"America isn't drifting toward authoritarianism; it's already arrivedquietly, bureaucratically, almost politely. The crowds, the chants, the carnival of grievancethat was Act One. In Act Two, the show has moved backstage. The footlights are off, the machinery hums, and President Donald Trump, who once ruled by impulse, now governs through design. The old fear was that Trump's chaos would wreck the republic. The new reality is worse: he's learned how to run it."
"The central project of Trump's second term is not ideological but architecturalthe systematic capture of the federal government. Its blueprint was published long before the inauguration: Project 2025, a 900-page manifesto laying out a plan for consolidating power. Trump once claimed he had nothing to do with it. But the architecture bears his fingerprints everywheremost visibly in the ascendance of Russ Vought, the OMB director turned chief mechanic of the new order."
America has arrived at authoritarian governance characterized by quiet, bureaucratic consolidation rather than chaotic spectacle. Presidential rule has shifted from impulse to systematic design, normalizing assaults on democratic norms and anesthetizing public outrage. The central project of the second term focuses on capturing the federal government through Project 2025, a 900-page blueprint for consolidating power. Russ Vought and allied officials executed layoffs and hollowed agencies under fiscal pretexts, removing inspectors general, ethics officers, and policy staff. The resulting skeleton bureaucracy answers upward, replacing neutral expertise with partisan obedience and collapsing the constitutional balance between Congress and the executive. Power now flows by decree.
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