> Instead, economic trust in the US--built up over decades--is being actively firebombed into the dirt by the new Republican regime.
I think that's an important thing to reiterate.
This isn't Trump. This isn't MAGA. This is the entire Republican Party apparatus that is allowing this to continue. The Republicans of the Nixon, Regan, Bush eras are long gone.
> This is the entire Republican Party
1000%.
The malfeasance from the executive branch could be curtailed almost immediately if there were responsible GOP reps in Congress. They're not powerless passengers on this train, they're actively shoveling coal into the steam engine.
For a concrete example, the law Trump is abusing--where some smuggled fentanyl constitutes National Emergency that lets him invent a tax on Americans--states that any motion in the House to terminate the "emergency" must be given a vote within 15 days or less.
But last month, the Republican majority in the House voted (party-line) to declare that calendar-days for the rest of the year just... don't actually count as time passing, for no particular reason.
That's active complicity.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/house-republicans-block-con...
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolutio...
I think that drawing a distinction between Trump, MAGA, and the Republican Party may be a mistake. It's all one and the same. Which makes me wonder about all the "moderate" Republican voters, and what's going to happen when Trump kicks it.