I'm certainly not saying you're wrong, a lot of dots connect and do look like malice, but there's a vast amount of data that supports incompetence.

[0] Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. ( elsewhere and generously, incompetence ) https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

I say that dulled for me since the time the executive branch refused to appropriate congressional funds, lost several federal rulings on this and then continued to do so (the beef against Harvard and other high profile Universities is one of many recent examples).

The "Big Beautiful bill" was the moment the razor completely broke in my mind.

Trump has no idea what a "fascist" is. He suffers from narcissism, and when you put narcissists in charge, you get fascist dictatorships as a result. That's why it's very easy to see that it's happening without having to psychoanalyze anyone. But because it happens in such a stupid way, people are constantly thrown off the trail as we see in this thread.

You cannot credibly claim a US gov website just accidentally loses a specific chunk of the Constitution that specifically refers to all the parts of it that Trump is currently trying to break. It might be an accident that some overzealous kid was put in charge of the website, and it might be an accident that the removal happened in the first place, but the actual removal is clearly intentional on someone's part. If it stays up and does not get restored, that's also "incompetence, laziness" but it's also the effect of increased fascism.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/hitler-incompetent-lazy-nazi-govern...

What if it gets restored in a matter of hours, like it has?

That's it , that's all it is . Pour plenty of cocaine and ketamine into the machine to keep it moving smoothly.

Perhaps you are referring to an appeals court ruling to that effect ("some deportees lacked criminal records and denied any meaningful judicial review or legal defense") ? This was overturned by the supreme court on the narrow grounds that the habeus petition should have been filed in TX, not judge shopping in DC.

[1] https://www.usconstitution.net/supreme-court-orders-trump-ad...

From dealing with constant hysterics.

In this case for example we can believe there's a power grab taking place in which the constitution (as represented on a government website out off all places, for some reason) has been altered unilaterally. Note that this in practice is meaningless and you might as well scribble over your nearest copy of the document. Nothing but outrage can come out of this.

Or, we can believe this to be an error of some kind. Which is far, far more probable.

The amount of work hysteria have done for Trump can't be overstated. The tribalism it has fostered, the media fog it has created, the decimation of trust in institutions, there is no doubt in my mind that he wouldn't be president right now if it wasn't because of the sheer inability to deal with him in a rational way. To his credit, he used it well, but I'd have preferred if it wasn't delivered to him on a silver platter.

Another good example: the aircraft accident months ago. All talk about how everything was about to fall off the sky (literally) or the impending collapse of air travel altogether. All while it was clear as day it was a unusual, yet tragic, occurrence. Didn't stop the hysterics though, and it dominated the news cycle.