E.J. Dionne Jr.

in January 6th, Justice Department really being destroyed and using it for investigations of political enemies from the chair of the Federal Reserve to Governor Walz in Minnesota to Mayor Frye.

And we can go on and on.

Tariffs by fiat on our allies.

the weirdness over Greenland and threatening, again, our allies with tariffs just by fiat.

I think that we saw in what Russell Vaught has written about radical constitutionalism before he became the head of OMB for Trump, a real desire to fundamentally alter the regime.

Yeah.

I think that the country has really started to come to terms with that danger because of the acceleration of events over the last month and a half.

It does.

And I think if you're asking me, will he succeed?

I think that the good news over the last month is the rising opposition that this is called forth

from the country.

I know two recent special elections in Texas and last Saturday in Louisiana, where there were, these were Trump districts.

There were 30 plus point swings away from the Republicans.

He is throwing away all of the constituencies, the swing constituencies

who came to him in the last election.

So I'm not saying he will succeed at this, but I think he has become more and more aggressive at it.

And we need to face up that this is not just some guy doing one random thing after another.

This is somebody who is setting about in a systematic way to destroy institutions.

At the very least, that's not clear.

And I think it's something that people began to worry about even more again over the last several weeks.