Column: U.S. history gives context on Trump and a rolling coup d’etat

What we witnessed on Jan. 25, when Donald Trump’s Office of Management and Budget directed all agents and agencies of the federal government to cease disbursing federal funds, was a coup d’etat. To be sure, it was rescinded only two days later in the face of a tidal wave of opposition from the public, but we should make no mistake about the aim and purpose of this measure: to seize federal authority and concentrate it permanently in the hands of President Trump and whoever succeeds him.

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