How to stop Trump's power grab

[Uncle Joe]

Trump isn’t inevitable. Here’s a plan to keep democracy intact.

At this point, there is little doubt that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are engaged in a fundamentally unlawful effort to rewrite the American constitutional order. Their efforts to redirect federal spending are attempts to seize Congress’s power of the purse, a core element of its Article I constitutional power. They have attempted to shutter multiple federal agencies, like USAID, whose existence are expressly guaranteed by statute.

Yet while the public is waking to the scope of the threat to democracy, many Americans are still feeling powerless. It can seem that Trump’s control over the executive branch, together with congressional Republicans’ spinelessness, makes it hard for anyone to respond effectively.

But nonetheless, there are ways to fight back — to do more than is already being done. An effective strategy would revolve around three key points:

1. First, Trump is weak. He has deputized Musk to grab power illegally because he doesn’t have the votes to win it through legislation. The illegality of Trump’s agenda means that there are lots of levers his opponents can pull to stop him. The most significant of these are lawsuits, many of which have already yielded injunctions against unlawful Trump-Musk orders.

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https://www.vox.com/politics/399530/trump-power-grab-musk-protest-resistance-strategy

[Frasier Balzov]

1. If Trump can turn off any opponent's paycheck

and go into people's bank accounts to suck out funds

that's checkmate.

Only guns and ammunition and the courage to use them will change the outcome.

I don't have any of those. It would need to be the military.

But then where would we be?

Junta land.

[Uncle Joe]

3. As he does that, the erosion of whatever influence and power he has will accelerate even more

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among the American People.

The erosion already started with his total usurping of the Congress's power of the purse by allowing an oligarch to delete their lawfully passed legislation. That was a direct slap in the face to Article 1 and any Congress people that believe in the first institution created by the U.S. Constitution regardless of political party.

The only checkmate in the game of chess is elimination of the King and by his actions *rump is sacrificing his protective pawns, bishops, rooks and knights, and I don't believe his queen truly thinks too much of him as it is.

[marble falls]

2. Turn the US into healthy garden salad?