The reason Trump and Musk are operating by executive fiat is because they are weak. They are too weak (and, let's be real, incompetent and lazy) to develop a legislative consensus to do the things they are doing. If they could, they would forcing things through Congress.
"The core issue is that Musk and Trump are acting *as if* they hold absolute power, even though they do not," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social. "They are, in that sense, bluffing. But it's a bluff they want to turn into a new reality, one that destroys the American constitutional order."

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