Jim Olson – April 4, 2026

Author’s note- The following is not commentary on political sides or ideology, but thoughts on the current state of our Constitutional survival amidst individuals willing to supersede the power of that framework.

“Constitutional Crisis”.    Those words are arguably being verbalized at an alarmingly higher rate than any other time in our nation’s history, excepting perhaps those years in and around the Civil War.   

Other historic instances, not the least of which include the most impactful era of the Civil Rights movements, drove strong arguments that the Founder’s intentions within the Constitution needed long overdue and absolute action in which to maintain the standards of that framework.   These other vital moments in history were rightfully, and for certain, calling out Constitutional Crisis of woeful inadequacies demanding righteous Constitutional adherence.  

This era of “Constitutional Crisis” is different.  The causation of this crisis is not a population of citizenry who generationally and conveniently ignored Constitutional edicts until there developed incendiary flashpoints.  This…..THIS “Constitutional Crisis” is the making of a population of legislators, an entire executive branch, and those in executive leadership who in just over a year, have flagrantly and purposefully ignored and overstepped an ever increasing and astounding collective of Constitutionally mandated processes and protectionisms supported by lawfully developed statutes.  This abandonment of Constitutionally derived processes and statues has now put our country in jeopardy.  That jeopardy transcends the areas of social, economic, and security concerns both internally and at a global level.

Abandoned through willful, subjective, and illegal actions are those lawfully developed statues that were to protect against government  overreach, malfeasance, authoritarianism, illegal enrichment, withholding of congressionally passed mandates, unlawful prosecution, lack of prosecution, illegal use of force and war powers, economic and civil exploitation, the prejudicial dismantling of individual  and group civil rights, and the abandonment of due process.  The list is almost infinite and the cost incalculable at the granular sub-level at each of these. 

If, as a nation, we do not rise as one, Republican, Democrat, and Independents to reset the rule of Constitutionally supported processes and lawfully developed statutes, we are most certainly lost to the historically proven failure of authoritarian despotism.   Those currently who are either vociferously or quietly supporting the abandonment of Constitutional based rule will find themselves like many others throughout history, consigned to being surprised and learning only too late they were simply ignoring the ultimate disposal of their own rights along this current path of Constitutional destruction within the United States of America.