Already, the U.S. President - having cowed Republicans in Congress into ceding their authority over tariffs - has abrogated for himself complete control over U.S. trade policy, setting ruinous and chaotic tariffs on a whim and treating signed trade deals as nothing more than suggestions, rather than commitments.
He has even taken to lecturing people about having too much (quite the thing for a billionaire who lives in gold-plated accommodations to be saying) and calling for short-term pain to achieve his supposedly great vision, something that will be familiar to anyone who has studied authoritarian regimes.
And now, the Trump Administration is weighing a further step up the authoritarian ladder by floating the suspension of Habeas Corpus:
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