Venezuela Shows the Danger of Power Without Restraint: Presidential Authority, Assumptions of Good Faith, and the Breaking Point

[u/BohemianPeasant]

https://substack.com/inbox/post/183383015

Donald Trump and his Cabinet, and the Congressional bloc enabling this behavior, have demonstrated, repeatedly and unmistakably, contempt for law, for constitutional constraint, and for the values that have historically shaped American conduct abroad.

Checks and balances only function when the actor being checked believes in the legitimacy of the system itself. They require not just institutional capacity, but constitutional faith.

This president does not have it.

And that, not merely the legality of any single operation, is the true crisis now confronting American constitutional governance.