Trump’s Deportation State Abuses the Rights of Not Just Immigrants But Citizens, Too: An Executive Watch Roundup
Our mid-March selection of the president's latest and greatest assaults on the rule of law
The UnPopulist, along with its parent organization, the Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism (ISMA), launched Executive Watch early in Trump’s second term. This project, which tracks...
The strongest version of this narrative is that the Trump administration’s second term represents a deliberate and systemic assault on democratic institutions, using executive power to consolidate control, silence opposition, and rewrite history. The article effectively documents a pattern of actions—from financial opacity to media suppression, from extrajudicial violence to politically motivated prosecutions—that collectively paint a picture of an administration operating with impunity. The inc...
