Our system is "cracking under the weight of one man’s lust for unchecked power"
Congress demoted to "glorified consultants"
Trump’s freezing of federal grants isn’t just another budget maneuver—it’s a hostile takeover of congressional authority, a direct assault on the separation of powers. By sidelining Congress’s control over spending, he’s effectively demoting lawmakers to glorified consultants while consolidating executive power like a third-rate autocrat.
Calling it a “temporary freeze” is like calling a bank robbery a “brief withdrawal.” If he can single-handedly block funding authorized by Congress, what stops him from using “emergency powers” to suspend elections, adjourn Congress, or jail opponents? The playbook is obvious: test the waters, normalize the breach, then go further.
This isn’t just another crisis—it’s the system cracking under the weight of one man’s lust for unchecked power. And the collapse isn’t theoretical; it’s unfolding in real time. If Democrats and the media don’t treat this as the existential threat it is, they’ll be complicit in democracy’s slow-motion demolition.
