“Former national security official warns “Trump is moving faster than most dictators have.” “Steven Cash knows this firsthand. A former state prosecutor and senior adviser to the undersecretary at the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence & Analysis, he now serves as executive director of The Steady State, a pro-democracy organization of more than […]
Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January 2025 reignited the intense debates about the future of democracy in America, with many observers, here and abroad, expressing concern that his actions since resuming office represent a deliberate, calculated effort to concentrate power and undermine democratic norms. Almost everything he’s done since his first day […]
On October 11, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, “I am using my authority, as Commander in Chief, to direct our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th. We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR […]
Donald Trump continues, in all his policies, all his actions, all his “alliances,” and all his statements, to demonstrate a total lack of understanding, interest in or care about the consequences of his actions, the rule of law, or the welfare of this country and its people as he desperately tries to make himself the […]
The phrase “the King’s evil Ministers” is older than many of the monarchies it once excused. It arose in times when the people, suffering under misrule, needed to preserve faith in the crown while explaining away tyranny. If the taxes were unjust, if wars were wasteful, if the prisons were full — it was not […]
2025 is certainly not the first time the United States has been hit, with a potentially nation-ending social upheaval. The civil rights battles certainly revolved around a continuing effort to restrict democracy for and dehumanize an entire group of our people. The Vietnam War resulted in almost 60,000 dead, many, many thousands of wounded American […]
Welcome to “The Steady State Deep Dive,” a Podcast series addressing vital domestic, regional and global security issues including rule of law, free and fair elections, political civility and transparent policy-making based on facts and sound analysis. This AI -generated Podcast is based on the following post published by the Steady State on October 31, […]
The phrase “Fiddling While Rome burns” has returned to the headlines, often used to describe the Trump Administration’s indifference—or worse, opportunism—in the face of national crisis. The expression conjures the image of Nero, the Roman emperor, blithely playing his violin while his capital city was consumed by fire. It has become a shorthand for vanity […]
There was a time when the American state drew a sharp line between public authority and private enterprise. Government regulated, taxed, and occasionally subsidized—but it did not own. That distinction, once fundamental to both capitalism and democracy, is vanishing before our eyes. Under the Trump administration, the United States is witnessing the emergence of a […]