“President Trump is fond of the phrase “law and
order,” which he sometimes tweets in all-caps as a succinct projection of
strength and control. His relationship with the related concept of the “rule of
law” is more complicated.
Trailing Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the
unresolved presidential contest, Trump is pulling out a playbook perfected by
Russian President Vladimir Putin and other authoritarians. It relies on sowing
doubt about the institutions of law and government, spreading misinformation or
outright lies that serve a leader’s political ends, and relying on a cadre of
loyal supporters to believe what they are told, Putin scholars said.
Trump’s attempts to brand legal election
practices as fraud and to use the courts — one pillar in the nation’s
democratic architecture — to intervene in the counting of votes — another
pillar — are the latest examples of what has long been his malleable view of
the democratic system.”
Anne Gearan had this for the Washington Post …
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