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by acc_297 370 days ago
It continues to seem like this administration sets out to achieve 200% of each objective so that they can retreat to a position where they have attained 90 or even 100% of their original plan after a series of court decisions and popular backlash.

Every institution which could in theory check executive overreach is either already captured by ideological allies or is completely overwhelmed.

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This was predicted 16 years ago: https://wondermark.com/c/377/

(Honourable mention to https://wondermark.com/c/782/, from 14 years ago)