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How a President Becomes a Dictator: By Executive Order
• Zero Hedge"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force." — Ayn Rand
130 executive orders in under 100 days.
Sweeping powers claimed in the name of "security" and "efficiency."
One president acting as lawmaker, enforcer, and judge.
No debate. No oversight. No limits.
This is how the Constitution dies—not with a coup, but with a pen.
The Unitary Executive Theory is no longer a theory—it's the architecture of a dictatorship in motion.
Where past presidents have used executive orders, decrees, memorandums, proclamations, national security directives and legislative signing statements to circumvent Congress or sidestep the rule of law, President Trump is using executive orders to advance his "unitary executive theory" of governance, which is a thinly disguised excuse for a government by fiat.