For the left, there is little more terrifying than an emboldened Donald Trump. Deep into the first year of his second term, he has behaved like an imperial president, thriving off new precedents set by the Supreme Court to shred democratic norms. He has gutted the federal bureaucracy, wantonly dispatched the National Guard to Democrat-run cities, unilaterally imposed tariffs, unilaterally launched a missile strike on Iran, and wrongfully deported an immigrant to El Salvador. Many Democrats call this fascism, but it is more a long-running conservative project to dramatically expand the powers of the American presidency — especially at the expense of Congress and the federal agencies.

If this is all plainly disturbing, with Trump occupying the White House through 2028 and threatening

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