The second Trump administration has revealed American Caesarism in nearly full bloom. Despite ambitions to fundamentally change the course of the country, this administration has no real legislative agenda. Instead, the president governs by executive orders, emergency decrees, and extortionate transactions, using his power to reward his friends and punish his enemies. He's launched foreign military adventures and full-blown wars seemingly based on personal whim, and has made the military a political prop and a tool for domestic law enforcement. With Congress sidelined and the courts reluctant to check Donald Trump's excesses, America has been left with what some legal scholars have described as an 'executive unbound''and with a president who threatens to supplant the republic in all but name. Trump's most fervent supporters justify his approach in terms reminiscent of Caesar's. The White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has remarked that 'the whole will of democracy is...
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