NEWS.COM.AU: The US is in utter chaos after Donald Trump issued his most controversial decree yet, just weeks into his second presidency.
It doesn’t need another January 6 insurrection.
It doesn’t need loyal militias on the streets.
All it takes for the world’s greatest democracy to fall is to fire those who believe in doing their job.
It’s just one month into Donald Trump’s second term as the 47th President of the United States, and he has issued his most controversial decree yet. He insists that only he and his Attorney-General can interpret the law for government institutions.
All the while, “special government employee” Elon Musk and his team of young acolytes are firing civil servants at all levels of government and seizing control of crucial personal records systems.
Political analysts are alarmed.
“As researchers on authoritarian politics, it is no surprise to us that a leader bent on expanding his own power, such as Trump, would see the bureaucracy as a key target,” argue political scientists Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Joe Wright.
It’s a heavily-worn chapter of the millennia-old “authoritarian handbook”. » | Jamie Seidel | Monday, February 24, 2025
