Double-Barrel Outrage Watch: The Dismantlements of MAGA and MAHA

What Donald Trump and MAGA are doing to America is matched by what he and Robert Kennedy Jr. are doing with MAHA. Both are disasters for the country.

Trump is warping American democracy, constitutional governance and international preeminence—into ugly authoritarianism at home and weakness abroad. He and Kennedy, instead of Making America Healthy Again, are killing America’s public health system and endangering millions of lives.

An Authoritarian Crisis

Trump is trying to convert the Executive Branch, constitutionally meant to be one co-equal branch of government (in fact, inferior to Congress, which is Article 1 while the Executive is Article 2) into a colossus in command of everything, with him as its all-but-royal ruler. His attitude, expressed most recently last month, is “I have the right to do anything I want to do. I’m the President of the United States.”

He’s exercised dominion over agencies set up by Congress to be independent—and is now trying to do the same with the Federal Reserve, which could undermine the value of the dollar, the world’s reserve currency. He fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, accusing her of rigging job numbers—then installed a replacement who is expected to rig numbers in his favor, undermining the trust that businesses, economists, other federal agencies and state and local governments rely on, along with foreign leaders.

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