How might a president, leader of the free world, assert ultimate power and eliminate any checks and balances on the executive branch? I am talking about suspending our Constitution’s checks and balances and implementing a dictatorship.

One would start by controlling the narrative by belittling, disparaging, and attacking a free press and labeling truthful speech an enemy of the people.

Then one would replace those in government who follow the rule of law with new appointees whose loyalty is only to the president.

Next, one would create domestic turmoil and chaos so rampant as to be permitted to impose emergency measures to quell the very chaos that one had created.

Donald Trump is firing career civil servants and replacing them with Trump loyalists. Tariffs and trade wars with our allies and biggest trading partners are about to spike inflation, disrupt the supply chain, and create instability.

In less than one month on the job, Trump has already dismantled vital government services, weakened national security, started trade wars, torn apart international alliances, disrupted world commerce, suspended congressionally mandated funding, eroded oversight, threatened to take lands of sovereign nations by force, pardoned and freed thousands of dangerous convicted........

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