In recent days, the Trump administration has violated the Constitution in ways that would have been considered shocking and even impossible only four months ago. The distinguishing feature of these extraordinarily anti-democratic moves is that they are all performed in the open. In the old days, we may have imagined that authoritarianism was something that happened in darkened rooms; in the silence of the oppressed. In these postmodern times, authoritarianism operates according to a different set of principles. Its proponents don’t need or want to break the law in private or through secret dealings. They want to do it as openly as possible, so that the public concludes on its own that the law no longer matters.
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