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Tina Dupuy is a former Hill staffer, strategist and writer for hire. She's written for @TheAtlantic, @Vox, @FastCompany, @LATimes, @MotherJones among many others. She's a host at @SXMProgress.
We’ve seen it: the belligerent typo-ridden tweets; the fawning press conferences with autocrats and overlords; the self-described Nazis on parade praising an American president’s name. On election night, he came in second place, yet due to a scab of slavery in the Constitution (the electoral college), this usurper has the full power of the most powerful military in history, command of the treasury, the absolute power to pardon and he can unilaterally annihilate millions of people with his command to deploy nuclear weapons. The President has the elements of power; Congress has but words: he can act; Congress can but talk. In 1973, the idea came up again a few weeks after the second inauguration of Richard Nixon, when Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara Tuchman wrote a piece in The New York Times asking “Should We Abolish the Presidency?
As a former Hill staffer, strangely, I have more government experience than the current President of the United States. And my up close experience in the American government has taught me “best-laid plans” can blow up in one’s face
The first two weeks of the Trump Administration, malevolence has taken over the country. Darkness forged in cruelty and spite: American Carnage