In my mind, America is and will always be a nation where the will of The People carries weight. But, as Benjamin Franklin once said, we have "A republic, if you can keep it."

Desperate people do desperate things. Trump’s need for control is reaching unprecedented levels, and it’s doing substantive damage to our institutions and our pocketbooks. 

Yet another month under the Trump administration and we've seen everything from reckless and downright cruel economic policies to a drastic turn towards authoritarianism and the most brazen and open self-dealing of any presidency in American history.