{"id":167708,"date":"2025-03-22T10:55:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T14:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=167708"},"modified":"2025-03-22T10:55:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T14:55:57","slug":"president-trump-descending-into-authoritarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=167708","title":{"rendered":"President Trump descending into authoritarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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David Smith wrote an article detailing his belief that President Trump and his administration are descending into authoritarianism. Smith accused Trump of instigating a coup on January 6, 2021 and further claimed that the latter would endanger the American experiment. Smith’s other arguments included Trump’s consolidating executive power, undermining checks and balances, and challenging legal and institutional norms.<\/p>\n

From The Guardian:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Trump, 78, has declared “We are the federal law” and posted a social media image of himself wearing a crown with the words “Long live the king”. He also channeled Napoleon with the words: “He who saves his country does not violate any law.” And JD Vance has stated that “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power”.<\/p>\n

Trump quickly pardoned those who attacked the US Capitol on January 6, placed loyalists in key positions within the FBI and military and purged the justice department, which also suffered resignations in response to the dismissal of corruption charges against New York mayor Eric Adams after his cooperation on hardline immigration measures.<\/p>\n

The president now has the courts in his sights. Last weekend the White House defied a judge’s verbal order blocking it from invoking the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 law meant only to be used in wartime, to justify the deportation of 250 Venezuelan alleged gang members to El Salvador, where they will be held in a 40,000-person megaprison.<\/p>\n

Trump accused James Boasberg, the chief district judge in Washington who made the ruling, of being “crooked”, said he should be “impeached” and labelled him a “radical left lunatic of a judge”. The outburst prompted John Roberts, the chief justice of the supreme court, to deliver a rare rebuke of the president, emphasing that “impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision”.<\/p>\n

In an interview on the conservative Fox News network, Trump denied defying a court order and said he would not do so in future. But he added ominously: “We have very bad judges and these are judges that shouldn’t be allowed. I think at a certain point, you have to start looking at what do you do when you have a rogue judge?”<\/p>\n

David Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W Bush, posted on the X social media platform: “Almost every major Trump action is intentionally illegal. Trump is gambling that the US democratic system is too broken to stop him. He assumes, to borrow a phrase: ‘All we’ve got to do is kick the door in and the whole edifice will come crumbling down.’ Testing hour is here.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Smith, D. (2025, March 22). The Trump administration is descending into authoritarianism. The Guardian<\/em>. Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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