50 ways the Trump Administration is breaking democracy

The Trump administration isn’t just rewriting the rules of governance; it is taking a bulldozer to the very foundations of American democracy. The destruction is deep and deliberate, reaching into every layer of political life, from the institutions meant to safeguard our freedoms to the norms that make collective life possible. What follows is a running list of fifty ways this administration is dismantling the systems that hold us together, not to overwhelm but to illuminate the scale of what is being lost and to remind us that repair begins with recognition.