This is the slow hollowing out of institutions. It happens gradually. And so I actually think even if to folks like us it was clear that there was a political crisis, it wasn't clear exactly what to do about it because the threat looks different now.
Authoritarianism doesn't look like what it used to look like. It's not your grandmother's authoritarianism. It doesn't ride into town on the back of a coup in the way that it used to, in the way that so many of us have in our imagination. This is the slow hollowing out of institutions. It happens gradually.
