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this Op-ed in the New York Times that I think correctly describes the reasons behind Project 2025 and what the Trump administration is doing. I think it can be summarized is that a group of people who think they are smart have deemed the republican democracy instituted by the U.S. Constitution is inefficient and that the only efficient form of government is a dictatorship. Democracy is inefficient by design to prevent tyranny. The problem the smart people don't seem to address is, what happens when they no longer like the person they elevate to the supreme presidency? Or worse, what happens to you when that supreme president no longer likes you?
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What ties together these thinkers? A conviction that executive governance combines maximal leeway to act with maximal power to execute decisions without second-guessing from civil servants or lawyers or deference to judges.
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The great danger of such a breathtakingly expansive view of executive power is that it threatens to transform the American presidency into a dictatorial office that disregards the separation of powers and seeks unchallenged primacy in its place.
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It also asserts for its expansive authority a near-permanent state of emergency.
#The problem is, the genie is already out of the bottle. How does Congress or the U.S. Supreme Court able to reign in President Trump and his handlers? Congress can start by passing a joint resolution that
ends the states of emergency as per the 1976 National Emergencies Act and override the president's veto.
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