1. The architects of Trump's Project 2025 presidency are following the anti-freedom playbook that Hungary's authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has used to impose the president's will on universities, media, and the legal system. Trump and his team have engaged in bare-knuckled extortion against some of the nation's top universities, threatening billions of dollars in cancer research and other publicly beneficial projects in order to force schools into alignment with MAGA ideology. Trump is using the previously independent Federal Communications Commission to threaten media outlets whose coverage is critical of the president. Trump has also waged an outrageous and unconstitutional campaign directed at lawyers and law firms that displease him. He's issued a string of executive orders to punish individual lawyers and threaten firms' ability to do business. Do you feel that President Trump's actions have merited him the moniker of America's Extortionist-in-Chief?
