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Trump’s Judicial Defiance Is New to the Autocrat Playbook, Experts Say (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Courts do not have their own armies or significant police forces. Yet leaders typically obey judges’ orders, because of the political costs of flouting them.

Usually, voters won’t reward their elected leaders for violating norms, disrupting a stable constitutional order, or taking actions that are intrinsically unlawful, said Aziz Huq, a law professor at the University of Chicago and co-author of the book “How to Save a Constitutional Democracy.”

But that calculus may not apply to Mr. Trump, who has based his political appeal on gleefully flouting sacrosanct norms. Refusing to accept courts’ authority may actually appeal to the president’s base, Huq said, if they take it as evidence of strength rather than lawlessness."

Two faced, hypocritical, tribal cult worshipping assholes: ThE pArTy Of LaW aNd OrDeR!

...my fucking ass you are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Yours is a rather high-quality comment, but I had a thought and now must ruin everyone's day:

...my fucking ass you are.

- Yoda to his TMNT claw-fist

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think he has some novel autocratic plan for enacting a dictatorship on this one, I think he's just being stubborn and narcissistic like usual.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Exactly, it's instinct for him. The planners are all the people around him, and they are pushing their plans (see Project 2025, for example), but for Trump all the stuff he says and does is automatic. That's my read, anyway.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago

“Honest to god, I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard political scientist and coauthor of “How Democracies Die” and “Competitive Authoritarianism.”

Chat, are we cooked?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

This is literally just him fully exercising the power dynamics available to him without any guardrails. There were never any internal moral or ethical guardrails. He’s gotten rid of the people in leadership positions that served as external guardrails. He now is doing pretty much whatever the fuck he thinks he has a reasonable chance of getting away with (note that that’s not precisely the same as “whatever he wants”, though it’s close). He’s the President, so if anyone or anything comes after him, he can just be like “no, make me” and then order nobody to make him, and that’s that.

That’s what’s happening. There’s no 4d+i chess. This is just “nobody can really stop me from doing this, and I don’t care about the consequences because I can protect myself from them, so fuck you im doing it”. Which is roughly how orangeboi has lived his life writ large, so that tracks perfectly.