America’s Drift Toward Constitutional Authoritarianism

Bogdan Hofbauer

One year into Donald Trump’s second presidency, U.S. democracy has not collapsed. Elections still take place. Courts still sit. Congress still legislates, albeit at a glacial pace. The U.S. Constitution remains intact. Yet the system now functions differently—not through rupture but through recalibration. Power has been centralized, norms hollowed out, and constraint redefined. What is striking is not what has been abolished but what has been absorbed, suppressed, or quietly overridden. Over

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