Trump's rain of executive orders

The first challenge for us is the use by the Trump administration of a barrage of executive orders to alter government institutions and change the manner in which the country is run so that the president and group of billionaires around him make all decisions which are then rubberstamped by Congress. This political action is paralleled by a media blitz, repeated in social media like the bankrupt X formally known as Twitter, that makes it appear as if Trump won a legitimate election, that he has massive support, and that his policies are a response to what the people want.

The most dangerous executive orders that destroy the rule of law and end all accountability and transparency in government, are:

“REMOVING BARRIERS TO AMERICAN LEADERSHIP IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE”

Opens the door to the takeover of the entire government, and the world by unaccountable IT firms and private intelligence hiding behind the mask of “AI”

“STRENGTHENING AMERICAN LEADERSHIP IN DIGITAL FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY”

Opens the way to Central Bank Digital Currency at the very same time that Trump supposedly rejected it by renaming it as “crypto” and empowering the fusion of IT and private equity to run the economy.

“GUARANTEEING THE STATES PROTECTION AGAINST INVASION”

Laying the foundations for a military government and blurs any distinction between the federal and state governments

“Designating Cartels And Other Organizations As Foreign Terrorist Organizations And Specially Designated Global Terrorists”

Allowing the military to undertake largescale military actions in the United States and to designate any organization chosen by the elites as a military enemy.

“ESTABLISHING AND IMPLEMENTING THE PRESIDENT’S DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY”

Creating an unconstitutional and opaque “department,” which is not actually a department, that is empowered to fire government employees at will for the interest of the billionaires.

All of these executive orders are prefaced with the line:

“By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows”

The executive order has always been problematic in nature, but here it is used to remke by fiat the very nature of the presidency and the legal system. Trump is saying, in essence, what the president says is the law. Or, as Louis XIV supposedly remarked, “

“L'État, c'est moi”

"I am the state"

There are any number of legal challenges being raised, and that legal effort is worthwhile.

I want to go out on a limb, however, and state that ultimately we will find that it is not sufficient to counter each claim of authority by Trump in the courts. We will ultimately have to say that if the president ignores the people, corrupts the law, and degrades the Constitution, well then he is not the president in any sense. If the entire Congress supports the president in his immoral and illegal actions, or takes actions that assume that he is so empowered, then they also lose their legitimacy and authority. There is no sin, and much merit, in condemning a completely bankrupt system in toto.