President Donald Trump’s first 30 days back in power have been an awesome spectacle. Trump and his agents have engaged in a historic and unprecedented blitzkrieg (“lightning war”) attack on American democracy, government, civil society and the country’s societal institutions more broadly. These attacks have consisted of many dozens of executive orders, diktats and acts that include attempting to revoke the 14h Amendment to the Constitution, usurping Congress’ control over the federal budget and spending, declaring a national emergency at the Southern Border and ordering mass deportations, firing inspectors generals and other non-partisan ethics officials, gutting the FBI and CIA, forcing thousands of career government professionals out of their jobs, establishing a thought crime regime and freeing Trump’s MAGA followers who violently attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6. 

Many of Trump's and his administration's actions are unconstitutional and likely illegal. Trump promised to be a dictator on “day one” of his return to power, but he is not limiting himself to that one day. As leading historian Heather Cox Richardson bluntly warned in a recent interview, “We're already in a coup.”

-Chauncey Devega in Salon.com