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the pendulum swings back and forth. i don't see that changing
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/07/trump...
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5293521/foreign-influen...
There a fantastic website here, following the status of Project 2025 [1], with references. Trump is following that document to the T.
Has America already become an authoritarian state where this sort of thing really happens?? I don't know, I haven't seen that sort of thing happen yet.
The conservative Supreme court recently ruled that the president has essentially unlimited power. During his campaign, Trump did promise that he will be a dictator for a day. Appears to be overdoing it.
Similarly, Musk can potentially launch a campaign to sway the public to move for Trump to be impeached due to his felony convictions.
A battle between the two might be the shakeup the current empire needs.
Trump may be more powerful than Musk by some metrics, on a time-limited basis (unless he manages to change the term limits), but Musk is more powerful in many ways as well. Musk's wealth is greater than that of many entire countries.
