By Cindy Petersen and Carl J. Petersen

Pulling The Alarm

Can the Constitution survive if Co-Presidents Trump and Musk usurp the other branches of government and nobody has the guts to stand up?

“The big joke on democracy is that it gives its mortal enemies the tools to its destruction.”

–Joseph Goebbels

Donald Trump has shown he doesn’t care about the law. He has built his power on a cult of personality that has made him immune to accountability within his base. As he proudly stated prior during his first campaign for the presidency, he “could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and [he] wouldn’t lose any voters.”

Our Constitution protects against overreach through checks and balances, but this requires active participation by the other two branches of the Government. Unfortunately, we cannot depend on Congress, with its Republican majority, to do its duty as it seems that those who are not full-blown MAGA are too scared of being primaried to take any action against the “Dear Leader” that could be interpreted as disloyalty. Spines are in short supply as Trump routinely violates the oath he took just a few short weeks ago to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United…