Source: The Atlantic
by Tom Nichols
“Trump has used this authoritarian approach, undergirded by his legendary shamelessness, to break through every line of constitutional and moral defense — impeachment, elections, even the humiliation of arrest and conviction — that would otherwise restrain a rogue president (or, for that matter, any ordinary American felon). The center is not holding, and the flanks are collapsing. Congress is fleeing the field. The voters, many of whom long ago became inured to warnings about Trump’s contempt for the law, may be anxious about his behavior, but millions are sticking with him. The president and his lieutenants still face one more set of defenses obstructing their march: the courts. If he can overcome the federal judicial system, then America’s worst modern constitutional confrontation will be over and Trump will be its victor.” (03/24/25)