Trump's constellation of constitutionally extreme actions is not technically unprecedented because each individual extreme action was taken by some previous president, but Trump is the first president to combine and execute all of these extreme actions simultaneously, creating a cumulative effect beyond what any individual president achieved

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Speaker

Dan Carlin

Evidence Quote

let's say you take the most constitutionally extreme thing that Bill Clinton ever did and add it to the most constitutionally extreme thing Ronald Reagan ever did, etc., etc., etc., and then you get a president in the future who does all those things

Source

Dan Carlin Explains Why Autocracy in America Was Inevitable (Making Sense #433)Sam Harris
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:41:50 AM

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