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To the editor:
Friday’s “ambush” meeting with Ukraine’s President Zelensky, which saw Trump and Vance playing the role of school yard bullies against a people trying to defend themselves from Putin’s aggression, was just another day at the office for the current administration.
I would point out that the Russian government from Stalin to Putin has never been a friend. Every President from Harry Truman through Joe Biden has understood this and worked to prevent Russian hegemony over the continent of Europe.
We used to call it the Cold War and we thought that the Reagan-Bush Presidency won that war. Apparently not, Putin’s Russia is likely to emerge the victor now that the United States has reversed its position.
In the six weeks since Trump took office, we have seen “government by chaos,” in the name of DOGE, a dizzying teardown of the federal government and attack on long-standing institutions in an attempt to increase Trump’s authority and power.
“Government by Chaos,” –he has pardoned those who attacked the U.S. Capitol to overturn the 2020 election, placed loyalists atop the FBI, [Kash Patel, really] and military, and purged the Department of Justice so they would drop investigations against Trump allies.
For those of us who love the Constitution and our democracy, even scarier he has declared control over independent agencies such as the Federal Election Commission and punished media outlets for coverage he dislikes. His allies suggest he could defy court orders.
Why should we be alarmed? Because his actions come right out of the old authoritarian playbook. “Trump’s actions echo moves by others who have won democratic elections and then moved to centralize control, such as Hungary’s Viktor Orban,” a frequent and welcome guest at Mar-a-Lago. Trump has declared, “we are the federal law” and posted on his social media site that “He who saves his country does not violate any law.”
Yet one of the principles of our rule of law dating back to the Magna Carta in 1215 is that no one, not even the king, is above the law.
What is the goal here? Obviously, it is power, Lord Acton, a 19th century British politician said, “Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely,” He was stating his belief that as a person’s power increases, their moral sense diminishes.
Mary Kathryn Gepner
Benton