Obviously Republicans control the Executive & Legislative branches right now, and can afford to sacrifice some of their agenda to filibuster. But it’s obvious now that the Trump admin has no issue committing crimes and violating the constitution almost every week.
Are the courts the only thing that can stop them right now? A military coup isn’t happening without direct threats to us. And the GOP is to far up Trump’s ass to impeach and convict him. So that only leaves the courts, do you think the courts are being purposely overwhelmed to slow down their action against MAGA?
Short answer, yes.
Long answer, yes and also even if they weren’t it wouldn’t really matter.
One thing Americans are waking up to is how much of this system was based off of good actors obeying the constitution. The judicial branch is used to being respected, they are a coequal branch of the government theoretically.
We are experiencing a harsh lesson in real politics though. The Republican Party has decided that their party should win not the constitution. They are more than happy to go “some guy in a robe somewhere said we can’t do something? Fuck him”
The executive branch has the military and is just doing things. If those things are legal no longer matter.
We are currently existing in an autocracy, so rule #3 of autocracies applies
Rule #3: Institutions will not save you. It took Putin a year to take over the Russian media and four years to dismantle its electoral system; the judiciary collapsed unnoticed. The capture of institutions in Turkey has been carried out even faster, by a man once celebrated as the democrat to lead Turkey into the EU. Poland has in less than a year undone half of a quarter century’s accomplishments in building a constitutional democracy.
That rule 3 sounds scary af. Because it feels like we’re in the genesis of that here in the states.
Unfortunately conservatives own the judicial branch as well.
