Authoritarianism Is Here - LegalEagle (7-minutes)
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Even worse, Trump and his Surrogates now whine, that simply calling their behavior “authoritarianism,” itself is an incitement to violence, thus justifying further crackdowns.
This is the logic of a Wife Beater.
This is Gaslighting on a National Scale.
And early in Trump's second term, we were asking, “Is this a Constitutional Crisis?” Well, yeah, it was. But the Constitutional Crisis is over. We Lost.
Trial Courts have fought valiantly, but the Supreme Court has repeatedly abdicated its Role, and handed over unprecedented power to the President. Not any President — certainly not a Democratic president — but to one President: Donald Trump.
The Supreme Court will not save us. And for reasons that I cannot fathom, they seem to welcome the turn towards authoritarianism.
Now, I recognize that it hasn't been seamless, there has been plenty of buffoonery. Trump exists in such a dense bubble of misinformation, that I think he truly believes everyone else is as corrupt as he is.
And that delusion has led him to empower some of the most incompetent Loyalists alive: Lindsey Halligan, Alina Habba, and Emil Bove, who have bungled his Revenge Fantasies. And some of their ham-fisted schemes have exploded in their faces.
And certain Institutions, especially Lower Courts and Juries, have Pushed Back.
But the terrifying part is this:
Their corrupt plans might have worked if they weren't so dumb. And eventually a more competent Authoritarian will step in and finish what they started.
As Professor Nicholas Grossman put it:
“In normal democracy terms, we're in bad shape and things are getting worse. In consolidated authoritarianism terms, we're doing pretty well, as the regime is haphazard, meeting resistance, and growing increasingly unpopular.”
And I think he's absolutely right. But I'm not confident that that will still be true 3 years from now.
And look, I don't think we're beyond salvation...yet. We do still have a choice.
But 3 years from now, a whole lot of these Bastards are gonna need to go to Jail.
There will be enormous political pressure to just move on, and pretend like this never happened. Arguably, like President Biden did after 2021.
But authoritarianism is like cancer. Ignore it, and it spreads. Pretend it's gone, and it comes back worse.
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Source: r/law
