Last week, Trump posted a fake Time magazine cover picturing himself wearing a crown and a smug grin with the proclamation, “LONG LIVE THE KING!”

I can hear his supporters chuckling about Trump’s love of trolling and “owning the libs.” If only that were all it was.

A couple of days earlier, Trump posted, “He who saves his Country does not violate any law,” a quote attributed to the 19th-century French emperor and dictator Napoleon.

That’s not exactly the Founding Fathers, who went to war to free Americans from the rule of kings.

But Trump and the MAGA movement have basically abandoned any commitment to constitutional democracy. They have cheered as he has brazenly broken the law and undermined our national security by allowing Elon Musk and his wrecking crew to pillage crucial computer systems and access Americans’ most sensitive private information.

One of Trump’s recent executive orders gives White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, an architect of Project 2025, the power to block federal spending approved by Congress, in violation of the law and in defiance of Supreme Court rulings.

The aggressive abuse of power by Trump and his advisors has been enabled by the failure of congressional Republicans to fulfill their constitutional obligation to........

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