John Crisp’s column asks “How far will Trump really go?” (The Columbian, Nov. 26). Really? Trump and his minions have been planning for three years how they would obliterate the checks and balances of our governing system. He has taken lessons from Hungary (and probably Putin) about how to do so. He will attempt to selectively control spending that Congress has appropriated to achieve his Project 2025 vision.
Part of that plan is to change the civil service system so that the government employees who were telling him some actions were against the law during his first term will be replaced with loyalists who don’t care about the law. They care about power and dissembling government protections for ordinary citizens.
It is embarrassing that a person with such flawed character traits was elected president. But more concerning is the threat he and his fellow architects of chaos present for our democratic principles and the rule of law.
He got his “get out of jail free” card from the Supreme Court. According to one of his former aides (Sarah Matthews) he is drunk on power. He will go as far as he can. And nothing should surprise us.
