The president’s methods, from ‘flooding the zone’ with scandals to prioritizing loyalty over competence, could ultimately weaken rather than strengthen him The pattern is by now all too familiar: with every power grab Trump tries – from a fraudulent speech about voter fraud to appeals to his supr...
Source: [Guardian US](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/03/trump-administration-authoritarianism)