Democracy has a lot of problems. Always has. But getting more members of Congress to reconnect to their oath and duty to the Constitution needs to be America's highest priority.
Equipped with Project 2025 when he came into office again, Trump has weaponized the idea of reducing government beyond any idea of merely reducing regulation.
Nearly a century ago author Aldous Huxley foresaw a world of populations willing to live under dictatorships that utilized propaganda and mind altering drugs to keep people "happy." Sound familiar?
America elected its first dictator and gave him a rubber-stamp Congress—one that already enabled a Supreme Court to render him immune for any crimes he is prepared to commit.
The man who has managed to do the impossible feat of bankrupting multiple casinos wants to be in a position to call shots at major multinational corporations, not to mention the Fed.
Right this minute members of the House of Representatives and Senate who have failed to act to restrain Trump in his violations of his oath of office are actually guilty of the same offenses.
Trump is clearly both unable and unwilling to do his job. JD Vance may not be much better. But he at least can string words into a sentence—how low we have come for that to be a desirable qualification.
Trump has a simple view of statistics and numbers. Those that make him look good in some way are real. Those that don't are fake and made up by his ever-increasing number of enemies.
The Trump economic strategy has always been: do whatever you want and claim it is all part of "America First." But the reality is always going to be "screw Americans first."
Trump and his Republicans want us all to be good little citizens and imitate our MAGA brethren in the act of being suckers, while they rob us with Trump's bill and the tariff "income" grift.