Continuous crisis has been U.S. policy since 1933.
A harsh reality for many to face is that we are currently under eight new emergency declarations since the start of Trump’s second term.
Most people don’t realize that “national emergencies” are not simply administrative measures, they are legal mechanisms that temporarily suspend the normal protections of the Constitution.
Under emergency powers, the executive branch is granted expanded authority, bypassing many of the checks and balances intended by the founders. In practice, this means your constitutional rights can be limited, reinterpreted, or set aside entirely.
This isn’t new. The precedent was set in 1933, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in response to the banking crisis, declared a national emergency through Proclamation 2039. This allowed the federal government to seize control of gold reserves, abandon the gold standard, and centralize economic power—actions that would have been far more difficult under normal constitutional constraints. That emergency was never fully rescinded. Since then, the U.S. has operated under a continuous state of emergency.
Every administration, regardless of party, has expanded this framework. New emergencies are declared, old ones are quietly extended, and the legal architecture of perpetual crisis becomes more entrenched. Most Americans alive today have never lived under a government operating without emergency powers.
This is exactly what I unpack in my latest episode of The True Health Report, where I trace the history of emergency declarations, their constitutional implications, and how they have been systematically used to erode individual rights.
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