Trump's Approach Pose a Danger to Civilization.

His national and international strategies – from the challenge to the democratic process in the past to recent moves and statements – undermine both national and global law. The implications are broader.

These actions endanger the core idea of what we mean by.

A moral purpose of civilized society is to stop the dominant from attacking and exploiting the less powerful. Without this, we would be trapped in a state of nature where only the fittest could survive.

This principle is central of America’s founding documents. It is equally the core of the global system established after WWII supported by the America, emphasizing collective action, democracy, individual liberties, and the legal authority.

However, it is a fragile ideal, often broken by those who choose to misuse their power. Preserving it demands that the influential have enough integrity to refrain from seeking short-term wins, and that the rest of us ensure they answer for their actions if they don't.

Unfettered might is not right. It makes for turmoil, upheaval, and war.

Each instance individuals, companies, or nations that are richer and more powerful target and use those that are less so, the structure of civilization frays. If these actions are allowed to continue, the system fails. Allowing it to persist, the world can descend into disorder and conflict. We have seen this pattern previously.

Today, we live in a international landscape with deepening divides. Influence and wealth are more concentrated than in modern history. This creates conditions for the privileged to leverage their position against the disadvantaged because they act with a sense of above the law.

The resources of a handful of ultra-wealthy individuals is staggering. The influence of major corporations in technology, energy, and aerospace covers much of the globe. Advanced technology is poised to consolidate wealth and power further. The destructive power of the world's largest nations is without parallel in the annals of time.

Empowered by a compliant faction and a sympathetic judicial body, the highest office has been transformed into the supreme and answerable-to-none entity of the state in the modern era.

Put it all together and you grasp the danger.

A direct line connects earlier breaches of norms to current menaces. These were premised on the arrogance of omnipotence.

There is much the same in other global contexts: in territorial invasions, in expansive ambitions, and in the global depredation by massive conglomerates.

Yet, unfettered might does not establish right. It fosters fragility, upended order, and bloodshed.

Historical evidence demonstrates that laws and norms to constrain the powerful also safeguard them. Absent these limits, their relentless pursuit for greater influence and riches in time bring them down – taking down their corporations, nations, or empires. And threaten world war.

This kind of lawlessness will haunt America and the global community – and the very idea of a rules-based order – for years to come.