August 12, 2025

You see it everywhere you turn. Once you start looking for it, you can’t stop.

Federal agencies are being gutted by teenage boys who think the destruction is funny. The rule of law is mocked by administration officials who believe they stand above it. Government lawyers target political enemies and lie to judges. Corporate titans and their attorneys bow down, offering false praise and thinly veiled bribes.

Our democracy is unraveling. Like a fragile tapestry, the threads holding our constitutional order together are being pulled out one by one. We thought the United States was stronger than this — that our commitment to individual liberties and free, fair elections would hold us together.

We are barely one-quarter of the way through Donald Trump’s second term, and already the damage seems immense and irreversible. It is unimaginable that it could get worse — far worse — from here.

But it will...