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Ex-Bush official says Trump is handing Democrats a loaded weapon — and MAGA will regret it
Rule by Decree Always Finds a New TargetThe Source, BrieflyA former Republican State Department official, Kim R. Holmes, warned that Trump’s habit of ruling through executive decrees, memos, and rule-breaking will not stay trapped on the right side of history. The immediate argument in the piece is simple: if one president uses reversible power to cut, purge, and improvise, the next president inherits the same weaponry.The Real Center of PowerThe actor with actual institutional power here is the president. Not the commenters, not the analysts, not the MAGA audience cheering the spectacle…
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