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Originally Posted by IliketoPuck
Lots of doom and gloom, and for good reason. This has been a concerning last few weeks.
For what it’s worth, friends of mine in the US that have connections in DC are of the view that Trump will not have time before the midterms to fully undermine US democracy. Not that he isn’t going to try as hard as possible, clearly he is, just that the runway isn’t long enough for him before a rebuke at the midterms.
I’m hopeful that is true, and that some checks and balances will still remain by then.
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Unfortunately, I disagree with this assessment. My agency fired all of of its probationary employees this week. We're probably going to have RIFs. The EOs are destroying so much of the infrastructure needed for modern governance and a modern civil service. Add all of this to the access that Musk is getting and the dangers that creates and it starts looking really bad.
But, what I think is the problem with the idea that we can make it to the midterms is that Trump is in the position of actor and the courts are reactive. So an injured party has to sue to have standing and then also has to find the right venue to sue. I think what we're going to see is that the judicial pushback takes too much time and gives the administration the window they need to truly break it all.