Everyday we wake up, we find some new turmoil engulfing the united states. This is an absurd state of affairs to be in: the president of the country is actively trying to demolish its institutions and embark on a textbook journey of one party rule. His policies and activities ever since he took office has been focused on consolidating power and expanding his influence over the pillars of power that exist in America.

 For the uniniated, America has a system called ‘seperatation of powers’, where different parts of the government is run by each of its 3 wings: the executive branch, the legislative branch and the judicial branch. The executive branch is headed by the president and the resident of the white house. The legislative branch is made up of the senators and congressmen and women who represent their states in the national assemblies. Finally the judicial branch is made up of the judges who enforce laws. Each has been empowered with a different set of privileges and responsibilities, to ensure that no one branch can overpower the others. Independence of each is sacrosanct and supposed to be involiable. Inevitably conflicts arise due to personalities or ambitions but the system endures as it was designed to.

Not in the day and age of the orange Cheetos. Just this last week, he defied orders issued by a judge to stop the deportation he called ‘gang bangers’. Leaving aside the details of the case, the fact that a sitting president and his administration feel emboldened to ignore the rulings of a judge and act as if the law does not apply to them is alarming and worrying. Already we are hearing of indiscriminate raids by the ICE, the immigration agency, picking up anyone who looks ‘brown’ and detaining them indefinitely. ‘Arrest first, investigate later’ seems to be the motto right now.  

Elon Musk, the deputy of Orange Cheeto who seems to have unchecked authority and access to the most sensitive areas of the US government, was supposed to be briefed on American military plans on how to wage war on China. Only the resulting ruckus from the media who had been discreetly informed about the briefing derail their plans.

Image the chaos that is going on behind the scenes, that we are not privy to. This is not how the world’s most powerful country, with the most powerful economy and developed political system behaves.