CONSTITUTIONAL COLLAPSE

The Road to Constitutional Collapse: The Case for a Counter-Coup

In the spring of 2024, we raised the alarm. We saw Project 2025 for what it was: a blueprint for destroying American democracy. We wrote articles, sent warnings to those in power, including the President and Vice President, and clearly stated that Trump’s eligibility should be challenged to avoid catastrophe.

No one listened.

Now, as we enter 2025, the catastrophe has arrived. What was once a warning is now a reality: Trump has returned to power, and the constitutional crisis we feared unfolds before our eyes. He will ignore the law, bend the courts to his will, and render Congress powerless. The system of checks and balances, America’s last defense against tyranny, will be dismantled, leaving Trump as the government's sole authority.

The signs are everywhere. Trump and his allies do not hide their ambitions. Project 2025 spells out their plan in plain language: replace career civil servants with loyalists, strip agencies of independence, weaponize the Department of Justice, and consolidate power under the Executive Branch. The legal system will be reshaped to serve one man’s interests. Dissenters will be purged. Democratic institutions will become tools of oppression.

And yet, where is the opposition? The Democratic Party, despite holding some power, is paralyzed, either too timid or too bureaucratic to mount meaningful resistance. Congress lacks the leadership and the will to fight. If not already compromised, the courts will face relentless attacks until they submit. And the people, many of whom still believe the system will correct itself, remain dangerously passive.

This is how democracy dies, not in an explosion, but in a slow suffocation.

What Comes Next?

The only way out of this is a counter-coup.

This is not a call made lightly. It recognizes the brutal reality we face: if Trump is allowed to consolidate power unopposed, there will be no elections in 2028, no peaceful transition of power, and the United States will be lost.

A counter-coup would require coordinated resistance from those still committed to the Constitution. Military and intelligence officials sworn to defend the country must recognize the threat and act accordingly. Judges, state governors, and legal scholars must refuse to comply with unconstitutional orders. Civil servants must resist attempts to co-opt their agencies. The people must be prepared to mobilize en masse, not with peaceful protests that will be ignored, but with strategic action that disrupts the machinery of autocracy.

This fight will require allies. The international community, notably the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and other democratic nations, must understand that what happens in America does not stay in America. A fascist U.S. government will embolden autocrats worldwide, undermining democracy everywhere. The world must be ready to apply pressure, provide support, and, if necessary, intervene to prevent the republic's final collapse.

We do not raise this alarm in haste, and we do not make this call without deep reflection. But the time for denial is over.

William James Spriggs