This Week In The Big Picture

In the first four weeks of his second term, Donald Trump has thrown a lot at us with the clear intention of confusing and creating chaos.

But if you think about it, what Trump is going for here is really quite simple: He’s trying to consolidate as much power in his own office as he possibly can, U.S. constitutional order and separation of powers be damned.

In tomorrow’s piece,

Jay Kuo

will break down Trump’s power grab into three distinct buckets, looking at how successful he’s been at each so far. And he’ll answer the question: What level of Constitutional crisis are we already in?

And in case you missed it, yesterday

Todd Beeton

looked at how the entire MO of Trump and his MAGA Republican Party has become simply to “own the libs” at every opportunity rather than make any attempt to improve the lives of Americans.