If Trump successfully defies the courts, the only remaining obstacle to dictatorship will be public revulsion and national popular protest.
Source: Here’s One Big Way You’ll Know if We’re in a Presidential Dictatorship
fta (NOT mine, even if I might agree):
My own, entirely uncertain, assessment of the current state of play is that the Trumpists would rather not baldly declare a dictatorship but instead overwhelm the courts and the political system with daily assaults on law and custom coupled with persistent, contumacious, but never candidly avowed noncompliance with court orders. The objective of this approach, consistent with Trump’s lifelong approach to litigation, is to delay a conclusive showdown with the judiciary so long that, whatever the legal outcome, the destruction of the federal government and subjection of the executive branch to Trump’s whim will have proceeded too far to be undone.
I wrote ⬇️ while reading ⬆️:
criminal contempt? likely leads to tfg pardoning himself or others, since federal crime, and doj would prevent
civil contempt (compel by fines, jail until comply): musk has deep pockets, even trump might. but do a double every day fine and it won’t take long toforcee compliancce
but all hinges on whether judges, even sctos, can enfoce their rulings. cf: let them enforce it”
at which point should we oin canada be worried? it seems hyperboly to say the usa is on the brink of losing their democrcy, whats to stop tfg from doing anything he wants? how will things be if his worst impules are acheved, or whats in project 2025. it seems so “handmaids tail-ish”, but to say so would be laughed off.
