Stopping Trump: The Damage
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Building Autocracy, Trampling the Constitution
15 posts, last post August 30, 2026
Autocracy is a system of government "by one person with absolute power." That's what Trump has always dreamed of being a King (Trump's version), and Project 2025 proposed a roadmap. The U.S. was founded after a successful revolt against a monarchy claiming absolute power. Two documents contain the Founders' vision: the Declaration of Independence ("We hold these truths to be self-evident: all men are created equal...with certain inalienable rights, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." The Constitution established three co-equal branches of government, with powers allocated to each to create "checks and balances". It also has amendments, the first one of which protects fundamental freedoms, such as freedom of the press; Trump's administration has been relentless, if ineffective so far, in trying to silence critical journalists.
It is our Constitutional system that Trump/MAGA have set out to destroy by systematically undermining and ignoring the legislative and judicial branches to promote the Executive's unchecked power.
This section will track Trump's daily anti-Constitutional efforts.
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Returning to Patriarchy - White Men in Charge
2 posts, last post September 02, 2026
After 150 years of progress toward the Revolutionary pledge of equal rights for all Americans, the Trump administration is attempting to eliminate our progress and criminalize criticism of the Trump agenda. He's also forcibly rounding up, detaining and even deporting people born in other countries, with the wrong skin color or the wrong ideas. Think of Pete Hegseth, who summarily fired or otherwise got rid of females and persons of color on the list for high-officer rank, and whose minister says women shouldn't be allowed to vote.
This section will track the many ways that Trump/MAGA are trying to return to the past, including returning to coal/oil energy and deep cuts to federal support for health and science research and education.
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Disrupting Alliances & International Peace to Build Rival Empires
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The Trump Administration is using diplomacy to denigrate and disrupt efforts led by the U.S. since World War II to promote peace through a rules-based order and system of alliances to support international peace and progress toward democracy. (The U.S. hasn't always been perfect in observing the rules.) Trump meanwhile seems to be trying to overturn the whole system through insults, tariffs, withholding funds, and using violent military initiatives to disrupt that order to promote his vision of America First (and quietly line the pockets of friends and family).
His recent attempt to "decapitate" the Iranian ruling elite has instead empowered the worst hardliners while providing them with a new source of income – tariffs for the Strait of Hormuz – and no end in sight. This leaves us and many allies much more vulnerable.
This section will track the ways Trump's attempts to impose his demands on the rest of the world are creating conditions for a more violent world order and undermining the USA's position as a leader of the free world.
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Corruption, Kleptocracy, and Broligarchy
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Trump's vision of himself as King of the U.S. seems to include a right to plunder the wealth of the country. According to the NYT, Trump "is raking in billions of dollars, bypassing Congress and the law" through various maneuvers. It's not just Trump, but also his family, such as son-in-law Kushner "pocketing billions from the middle east"; and Trump's cronies, as in "Private Prison Company Pays Off Trump to Win Back Contracts." And there's his business in selling pardons, plus many more examples. This corruption could kill our democracy.
A recent analysis shows how "America's billionaire class increasingly controls U.S. elections through their outsized spending." Many of those billionaires also control massive Artificial Intelligence companies and block regulatory efforts in Congress. And, we learn, "are now bracing themselves for a permanent underclass." Bracing themselves? What about the rest of us?
This section will track the ways Trump's rule enriches his own family, ties wealthy/powerful people to him through corrupt dealings, promotes the wealth and power of the billionaire Tech bros, and obscures the ways uncontrolled AI is encroaching on our civilization.