The regime's incompetence is its weakness, but so far US institutions seem to be so weak and ineffective in standing up to them that Trump's team might succeed anyway.
There seems to be a real lack of leadership and opposition trying to prevent this law-breaking.
This paragraph lands a bit weird - what is rounding up random Salvadorans/Venezuelans but authoritarianism (regardless of whether there is/is not a pop mandate for it)?
Granted, it's in the nature of authoritarianism that it *always* divides on me/other, never on universal principles.
But it's still hard to parse the sentence - what is the "authoritarianism" that would put off some hypothetical/marginal voter if grabbing people off the streets does not?
Is it some complex legalese about the degree to which court order was disunregarded? Is it excluding AP from the press pool? Is it deporting a US citizen who has done something - been in a pro-Gaza protest - that applies to a tiny % of the population?
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There seems to be a real lack of leadership and opposition trying to prevent this law-breaking.
But it's still hard to parse the sentence - what is the "authoritarianism" that would put off some hypothetical/marginal voter if grabbing people off the streets does not?
(i) direct offputting effect due to social lib-auth position (it's a continuum, so hits some people a lot, some people a little)
(ii) indirect association of incompetence (people associate it with broader ec/govt mismanagement which will effect them)
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