1. United States
2. Ariz.
3. Letter

When Nicki Haley campaigned against Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, she called him the candidate of chaos. She urged GOP voters to choose the saner candidate so that governance would be rational, paced, and norm-based. A full year has nearly passed, and former Ambassador Haley's characterization was clearly apt. As president in his second term, Trump has vacillated between attack and retreat on tariffs, between friend and enemy with longstanding allies and adversaries alike, and has said unintelligible things that have prompted three cognitive exams that he apparently mistakenly believes are intelligence tests. One thing has been very consistent. Five years ago today, he sent a mob that he had primed, fed lies, and knew contained armed members into the halls of Congress to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. This year, he sent our own military servicemembers into our cities to threaten Americans and our lawfully elected leaders into bending to his agenda. He knows no higher authority or allegiance but his own desires. Check his ambitions with the powers the Constitution reserved to Congress. Nothing short of full restraint will be sufficient to mitigate the damage he is doing to our democratic institutions or our international relationships that are governed by laws he is bent on violating.