Sunday reading: A MAGA Feeding Frenzy Is Ravaging the Constitutional Order The assault is coming from different angles: Project 2025. The feudal tech barons. The America First nativists. Less a single master plan – and more comprehensive chaos. This week’s piece (link below):

RT @tzimmer_history: We are witnessing an unprecedented autocratic power grab. If the different MAGA factions can just dissolve whatever pa…

The different MAGA factions have all been given the green light to go berserk on the system. This helps explain the brutal speed and scope we have been witnessing. It’s rightwing “counter-revolution” unleashed. And its destructive potential is enormous.

RT @tzimmer_history: Sunday reading: A MAGA Feeding Frenzy Is Ravaging the Constitutional Order The assault is coming from different angle…

I wrote about the role the different MAGA factions are playing in this comprehensive assault on constitutional government - where they align, where we can discern their distinctive fingerprints, and where we might expect friction and infighting:

We are witnessing an unprecedented autocratic power grab. If the different MAGA factions can just dissolve whatever parts of the government they don’t like and functionally suspend the constitution, then democratic self-government is over.  

Not even three weeks into the Trump regime, and the question very much needs to be discussed: Do we still have constitutional government or not? For the start of the weekend - new episode of Is This Democracy:

RT @tzimmer_history: 📢 PODCAST   Is the Constitution Still in Effect? We take stock of our rapidly escalating constitutional crisis and ta…

So, this happened last night. Not unexpected. But important to grapple with who these people are. They are now wielding enormous power - and they are determined to use it to wage war on pluralistic democracy.