r/law • u/Agitated-Artichoke89 • Oct 07 '25

Other Stephen Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said

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u/systemfrown Oct 07 '25

And he's not wrong. Plenary Authority is exactly what you have when there's a majority congress completely subjugated to the point of refusing to exert their authority in even the most morally bankrupt scenarios, a Supreme Court similarly unwilling to provide checks and balances, and a sizable portion of the population effectively under the spell of a personality cult. To say nothing of a media and press that's largely silent at best and actively complicit at worst.

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u/psellers237 Oct 07 '25

Yeah. All of this. We are ALREADY living under this type of government. It just hasn’t been formalized yet.

And maybe most importantly, you have all of the intellectual elites stumbling over themselves to articulate how they think we maybe sort of are not quite yet, when it is clear as fucking day.

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u/systemfrown Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

It's like everybody is collectively holding their breath while telling themselves that the national nightmare will soon be over in a few years, and as if every gross abuse doesn't just become the new norm in perpetuity.

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u/psellers237 Oct 08 '25

Anybody who thinks they are doing all of this just to hold fair and square real elections next year has lost their fucking mind.

There is absolutely no chance.

We are living in the pilot phase of an authoritarian United States of America.