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As Democrats and the public struggle to even keep up with what the Trump administration is doing to the nation, it's tempting to get caught up in the play-by-play. And although the details certainly are important, the single message must be this: Trump is trying to be a king or a dictator, and Project 2025 is his monarchical playbook.

In its first section, the "Mandate for Leadership" sets out Project 2025's overarching ideology: a theory of an all-powerful president, someone with authority more akin to that of a monarch than an elected democratic leader. The core section on this comes from Russell Vought, now the Trump-appointed director of the Office of Management and Budget, essentially the central nerve center of the federal government. The idea of agency or expert "independence""with independence rendered in scare quotes"is rejected. "The greatest challenge" ahead, Vought writes, is "aggressive use of the vast powers of the executive branch," which requires the "boldness to bend or break the bureaucracy to the presidential will."

If Trump has done one thing so far, it's break the federal bureaucracy.