Trump's brazen new power grab

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And why it, too, will fail - with our collective help.

Austin Weatherford

In America, we the voters pick our leaders.

And yet, this simple idea that has guided our democracy for centuries, is now being flipped on its head (yet again) by President Trump and his enablers. Earlier this week, the President signed an Executive Order that represents a blatant, unconstitutional attempt to seize control of our elections before the first ballots are even cast. This isn’t just another policy debate; it is a coordinated power grab by an administration that’s become so unpopular it already knows what will happen if it’s left to the will of the people.

The motive behind this move is transparent: MAGA is losing. Instead of trying to earn our votes, the Trump administration is trying to change who gets to vote and how those votes are counted so they can declare themselves the winners. A healthy political party tries to court your vote, but an authoritarian administration tries to keep you from voting at all.

By attempting to dictate election rules from the Oval Office — an area where the President has zero legal or constitutional authority — they are trying to control the outcome of the election to keep maintain one-party rule at any cost.

https://www.brightamerica.org/p/trumps-brazen-new-power-grab

[Igel]

1. Trumps says things.

They are not consistent. They are not always coherent, taken in sum or even in large parts.

Very often they are performative; very often they are, to use a term of art, "bullshitting." Often if you sit back a listen to the tendency of the harmonic line as opposed to the individual lines of the 2 4-part choruses plus orchestra, it makes better sense. Not always. But very often.