To defeat an authoritarian project, people — in courts, legislatures, the military, business, civil society, and the mass public — must choose to fight rather than collaborate in democratic decline or ignore it altogether.I feel like we can stop right there. In this most recent election, the purported authoritarian won a straight majority of votes. He's lost support since then, but even so, he has a very large base of support.
The article suggests that the threat has to be "obvious". Tens of millions of Americans dismiss the threat entirely.
I suspect that a lot of his partisans wouldn't support a clear violation of the two-term limit, but consider the precedent of Putin, who installed a proxy. Suppose that Trump decided to run for Congress; is there any doubt that he'd win, and be made Speaker? Or get himself made Chief Justice?
