Far from being an anomaly or the brainchild of a single administration, Project 2025 is the latest manifestation of a decades-long legal campaign by far-right conservatives to expand executive power to more of a dictatorship or monarchy. Trump is more vessel than visionary—the current standard-bearer of a movement that began long before him and will likely persist long after. 🇺🇸
Nixon wielded his monarchical power covertly—most notoriously during Watergate—and brazenly, claiming that Article II of the Constitution empowered him to impound funds already allocated by Congress and to conduct widespread, warrantless wiretaps.