“Consolidating power by overpowering the other branches of government is a necessary step to corrupting elections, compromising voting rights, and restricting civil liberties — in other words, compromising the rule of law is the first step in creating a fully autocratic state,” she writes. While he has certainly attempted to intimidate reporters into silence — by, for example, punishing the Associated Press when it refused to use the term “Gulf of America” — it’s clear from the headlines that most of the American press is not running scared. “A clear majority of voters say the president has already gone too far — too far toward changing the economic and political system, too far with the tariffs, too far with the spending cuts, too far on immigration enforcement” the Times’s Nate Cohn explains.
Author: Zack Beauchamp
Published at: 2025-04-29 22:28:29
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