Continuing a hijack from Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency - #51 by steronz in this forum, since the topic changed to Trump’s assertion of tariff power:
I agree this is what he’s saying - Trump is nothing if not an authoritarian - but look at what he’s doing.
He’s not using IEEPA for his tariffs. He’s looking for other ways to get around that and do what he wants - ways that unfortunately are available. He hates the Supreme Court for not recognizing his own personal supremacy over the law, and he’ll get around them any way he legally can, but he hasn’t gotten to the point of Andrew-Jacksoning the court yet, much as he might like to. And he’s not jawboning the Republican-controlled House and Senate into enacting the tariffs he wants legally, because he knows that’s a nonstarter and will end up making him look weaker if he tries it.
Note that I am not saying Donald Trump is not dangerous. He’ll do anything he thinks he might have even the slightest change of getting away with. He cares not for the country, its Constitution or its laws. I’ve been saying for a decade now (not all in this forum) that Donald Trump is the greatest authoritarian threat to America since the founding. It’s utterly disgraceful that the Republican party couldn’t find ten more senators in February 2021 to end the threat of him forever - possibly the worst example of “party over country” and “self over all” in the history of the republic, beyond Trump himself.
But while he still, like a whiny toddler, tries to get what he wants, he’s not outright defying the law to do it.