President Donald Trump, once the owner of the casino and always a man who was looking for another agreement, likes poker analogy in dimensioning partners and opponents.
“We have much larger and better cards than them,” he said about China last month. Compared to Canada, he said in June, “We have all the cards. We have each individual.” And the most worked, he told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelskyy in his confrontation of an oval office at the beginning of this year: “You don’t have cards.”
The phrase offers a world view of Trump, who spent his second stint in the White House accumulating cards to put on his interests.
He has accumulated the presidential power he used against universities, media companies, attorney companies and individuals he does not like. The man who ran for the President as an angry victim of the “deep state” is in some respects overcrowding of government power and training on his opponents.
And supporters who responded to his complaints to excessive democrats do not give up. They create it.
“Zbava of the state to victory in the Cultural War were essential for their agenda,” said David N. Smith, sociologist from Kansas University of Kansas, who considerably examined the motivation of Trump voters. “They didn’t like it when the state was mobilized to limit Trump, but they are glad that the state sees to fight against the cultural war on their name.”
How Trump the Weapon The Government
Trump began to give the federal government to work for him within a few hours of taking office in January, and since then has gathered and uses power in a new way. It is high -speed pressure to carry out its political agendas and resentment.
Last month, hundreds of federal agents and soldiers of the National Guard disintegrated after Washington after Trump drew from the never -unused law that allows him to take control of the law in the capital of the country.
There is a risk of deployment in other cities operated by Democrats, including Baltimor, Chicago, New York and New Orleans. He also burned the Governor of the Federal Reserve and pointed to unproven mortgage fraud requirements.
Trump, his helpers and allies in the entire executive branch, trained the government or threatened, for a dizzying number of goals:
– He threatened to block the stadium plan for the Washington football team if he did not buy a racial elevation he used as a nickname by 2020.
– He dismissed security clearances and tried to block access to government facilities for lawyers in legal companies that will disappear.
—Ard billions of dollars in the Federal Research Funds and tried to block international students from elite universities. Columbia University under pressure agreed to settle $ 220 million, the University of Pennsylvania canceled the records set by the transgender swimmer Lia Thomas and the presidents resigned from the University of Virginia and Northwestern University.
– fired or assigned federal employees focused on their work, including prosecutors who worked on cases where they were concerned.
– He released the accusation of corruption against the mayor of New York Eric Adams to gain cooperation in his intervention against immigrants living in the country illegally.
-secured the multimillion headquarters against media organizations in lawsuits that were widely considered weak cases.
This is not a weapon, says the White House spokesman Harrison Fields; It’s too much.
“What he witnesses the nation today is the most subsequent administration in American history,” said Fields, “the one who receives common sense gives America first and fulfills the mandate of the American people.”
Trump has the sixth sense of strength
There is a pressure and a power to power. It is given and accepted. And through executive orders, personnel movements, tyrannical pulpits and complete insolence, Trump claimed the powers that none of his modern predecessors had closed to claims.
Many people around him also gave power. A sharp loyal base that rides with it through dense and thin. Congress and the Supreme Court, which has so far advanced to the powerful branch. Universities, legal companies, media organizations and other institutions that have negotiated or settled with it.
The US government is powerful, but it is not all -powerful. When Trump learned his frustration in the first term, the president is written by the constitution, laws, judicial decisions, bureaucracy, traditions and standards. Yet Trump managed to eliminate, steam, ignore or otherwise neutralize many of these railings in his second term.
The leaders can perform their will through fear and intimidation by determining the topics that are discussed and by the formation of people’s preferences, Steven Lukes argued in the key book “Power: radical view”. Lukes, Professor Emeritus at New York University, said Trump was an example of all three dimensions of power. Trump’s innovation, Lukes said, is a “epistemic liberation” – a willingness to create facts without evidence.
“This idea that you can only say things that are not true, and then it doesn’t matter your followers and many other people … That seems to me to be a new thing,” Lukes said at least in liberal democracy. Trump uses memes and jokes more than the argument and defense to signal his preferences, he said.
Trump came across a government weapon
The central point of Trump’s campaign 2024 was his claim that he had been the victim of a “vicious persecution” committed “Armed Ministry of Injustice Biden Administration”.
Trump faced four criminal cases in New York, Washington and Florida, and in 2023 he said he longed to avoid stopping a government weapon, but to use it. “As for me, I’ll come to you!” Trump wrote about the truth of social social values 4 August 2023.
“If I happen to be a president and see someone who is doing well and very bad, I say, go down and blame them,” he said in an interview for Univision 9. “
For the most part, these threats retreated when the elections approached, although he continued the campaign against a government weapon. When he won, he announced it.
“There will never be the immense power of the state armed with the persecution of political opponents – something I know about,” Trump said in his second inauguration address.
A month later: “I ended the weapon Joe Biden as soon as I got in,” Trump said in a speech on February 22 at a conservative political action conference conference outside Washington. And 10 days later: “We ended a weapon where, for example, a meeting president is allowed to brutally prosecute his political opponent like me.”
Two days later, March 6, Trump signed a large -scale order focused on a prominent law firm that represents Democrats. And on April 9, he issued a presidential memorandum that ordered the Ministry of Justice to investigate two officials from his first administration Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor.
With that, the weapon appeared in a full circle. Trump is no longer surrounded by lawyers and government officials linked to the tradition and his instinct, which he played aggressively, faces several restrictions.
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