Philip M. Bailey

The theme of Trump 2.0, Dana, has been the president exercising and really expanding executive authority in ways that his predecessors probably never imagined possible.

When you look at the Trump 2.0 agenda, much of it has come through executive orders and executive action.

Take, for example, DHS and the use of ICE and Border Patrol actions.

Not just in Minneapolis, but across the country.

Besides the big, beautiful bill, Congress has really been sidelined.

It hasn't been the first forethought of the president.

And I think we see that in the Supreme Court's ruling against his tariff, global tariff policies, where Justice Neil Gorsuch basically said to the president in his ruling, in his affirmative opinion, saying that, hey, I know it's more difficult, but go through Congress for some of these things, Mr. President.

And I think there's a real contempt, I think, sometimes that Donald Trump has for that legislative process, saying, hey, my people elected me to do this.

I'm going to do it by any means necessary.

And I think alarms his opponents, a lot of observers around the country.

And we're seeing this with this lead up to the speculation that there is going to be this pending executive order on elections.

This is going on at the same time, Dana, where.

The President's SAVE Act that he's very supportive of that would change and require ID for participating in other identification to participate in federal elections.

Democrats and others are aghast at this legislation, by the way.

But at the same time, it looks like that legislation isn't going anywhere fast.

So President Trump and his allies, particularly those outside of the White House like Steve Bannon, who have already said on their podcast that, hey, we're going to declare a national emergency and send in ICE and send people to the ballots, send the people to the ballot boxes.

The alarm, I think, Dana, is largely because President Trump still to this day lies about winning the 2020 election.

He's never publicly acknowledged that he lost that election.

He even, I think, at the State of the Union alluded to winning the 2020 election when he did not.

So there is a lot of nervous speculation here on the part of Democrats and their allies, especially when considering that the Trump administration seized records in Fulton County, Georgia.