Source: Liberal Currents
by Dennis Lytton
“We cannot go back to anything approaching the old constitutional order, which already had been in a long, terminal decline. There is a deep distrust — both in the US and abroad; left and right — in the American presidency. … Trump has only supercharged its decline. MAGA has exposed its rickety foundations of norms and long-gone, favorable conditions. It’s inevitable that it will be replaced — either in actual written form or by becoming an irrelevant dead letter like other authoritarian regimes. Should we get the chance for the former, whether through an electoral win by a pro-democracy popular front or following a total collapse, we must institute a multiparty democracy (via proportional representation like most democracies) and an executive more like a prime minister than the imperial president we seem doomed to endure under our current constitution.” (10/31/25)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american-presidency-can-never-be-trusted-again/