In the same way that AI types ask each other their p(doom) at parties, apparently, I'd be curious to know other political scientists' p(end-of-US-constitutional-order). Suspect a lot of us who study authoritarianism would be pretty high up there.
Not all comparativists. Students of autocracies may agree, but some defend the coordination power of constitutions in consolidated democracies. Another perspective is that mass polarization has allowed one side to get away with undermining the constitution's coordination function.
Trump controls the High Court. America has a Sunni model of clerical authority and so it’s all about alliances—he controls most factions. All that’s left is the militias
reason the Dems will never take steps to rein in the Supreme Court is that they share its fundamental ideology, which is elite supremacy & impunity unencumbered by democracy.
