And that serpent is back: “The idea of a small government that serves the needs of a few wealthy people, Lincoln warned in his era, is ‘the same old serpent that says you work and I eat, you toil and I will enjoy the fruits of it.’”

#Politics #USPolitics #History #AbrahamLincoln #WorkingClassPolitics #DemocracyMatters #DemocracyVsOligarchy #DemocracyUnderThreat #USConstitutionalOrder #MuskCoup #TechBrosCoup #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-11-2025

“The replacement of our constitutional system of government with the whims of an unelected private citizen is a coup. The U.S. president has no authority to cut programs created and funded by Congress, and a private citizen tapped by a president has even less standing to try anything so radical.”

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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-3-2025