State Capture

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 David French in NYT writes that Trump is not merely testing limits with a specific purpose, but smashing limits for the sole purpose of breaking limits.

NYT French

French states that Trump and his MAGA Minions aim to move beyond historic limits so that they can tear down the present state of the Union because they don’t care for constitutional restraints and Judicial or Congressional oversight. Trump himself appears to be daring the Supreme Court to stop him.

In Executive Functions, Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith write that Trump/Musk’s presidential maneuvers are likely an effort to defy Constitutional Authority and any Supreme Court mandates in order to re-make the presidency as the supreme authority in the United States.

https://executivefunctions.substack.com/p/the-trump-executive-orders-as-radical

The whole point of the present Trump Administration appears to be, for Trump, with Musk’s aggressive assistance, to be the ultimate authority of the United States Government.  

Trump’s efforts resemble what has been known as ‘State Capture’. In 2016 in South Africa, ‘State Capture’ was the term used to describe a situation where the federal government had been completely co-opted by a group of nefarious billionaires.                 (Sound familiar?).

Tyler McBrien, Lawfare Editor, tells the story in a Guest Essay, 2/5/25 New York Times.

McBrien

While some of the particular details of the ‘South Africa’ story are different than present U.S. circumstances, the broader ‘State Capture’ scenario and end result are ‘hauntingly familiar’.

Beware.

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