“Let’s not miss what’s truly alarming in Trump’s recent remarks about Brazil: he suggests, almost offhandedly, that a president should interfere with court decisions — and speaks as if that were perfectly normal. So what stands out isn’t just what he says, but what he takes for granted. He assumes the executive should override the judiciary — not as a bold or controversial move, but as standard practice. The idea that courts should operate independently seems to have eroded so completely in his worldview that he now expects others to abandon it too. This isn’t just indifference to democratic norms — it’s their inversion. Trump doesn’t merely ignore checks and balances; he actively encourages their dismantling. That he no longer sees any need to defend this position is perhaps the clearest sign of how deeply he has internalized — and now exports — a fundamentally authoritarian logic.”
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