Time to use the 'I' word when it comes to Trump's actions
In the few months since Donald Trump returned to the presidency, he has issued so many executive orders and pronouncements on domestic and foreign policy that he may have overwhelmed our intellectual and emotional energy to fully appreciate their impact.
Whether or not you approve of the direction he wants to take the country, he took office after being duly elected (and this time following a peaceful transition of power) many of his initiatives are within his authority. Generally speaking, Trump has the right to indulge his ideological obsessions and advance policies that benefit the economic class that “brung him to the dance.”
But what of those executive orders that exceed the limited authority proscribed for the presidency — powers meant to be shared with other branches of government? Or those that defy Supreme Court interpretations of what the law and the Constitution mean, as is their responsibility?
Say goodbye to democracy — and our freedoms — if we ignore James Madison’s warning in the Federalist Papers that “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2025/05/23/time-use-i-word-when-it-comes-trumps-actions-column/