On the eve of turning nine months in the White House, it impresses how much you have been able to destroy or mutilate in such a short time and easily. The complete list of its malfections would take the entire space of this column. He promoted deep budget cuts – 22% in non -military spending – spending scissors with expenditures with education, health, housing, food assistance and social programs, giving priority to defense and security.
Attacked the best universities, requiring the end of initiatives of diversity and inclusion, increasing federal supervision and restrictions on foreign students; conditioned the help to ideological alignment; emptied federal support for research. Panic spread among legal immigrants or without documentation in order; hardened the rules and created asylum restrictions; He promoted deportations at random and lengthened the wall on the border with Mexico. He marked the environmental policies of Biden management; He took the US from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change; It weakened the aid to the production of electric cars and wind farms, while giving strength to the fossil fuel industry.
He muttered the public administration, dismissing employees, closing important agencies, when he did not give them to Sicofantas command. With the tariff, the International Trade System became upside down. And it has not stolen to empty institutions designed to ensure security and relative peace in the world.
Executive orders, which allow the president to legislate to the reverse of Congress, were the instrument of what the American writer Sam Harris called “performic devastation,” which rapidly corrodes the American democratic system. In a hundred days, 140 of these species of decree were edited.
This is why no analyst is willing to predict whether democracy will survive such harassment, even by the scarce resistance to the ongoing tractor. The building of the political order based on free and periodic elections and the formidable brake and counterweight system, designed to limit the concentration of the command, tends to solidify over time. But their stability always depends on the willingness of the leaders who vie for the power to bend to their rules.
It is not known to what extent democracies can resist when governments fall into the hands of those who not only disrespect the rules of the game, but they deal with using the resources within their reach to subvert them.
If the authoritarianism lurks the solid and rooted democracy, which will say the risk it is in Brazil, equally harassed by an extreme right hostile to the values and norms of an open political system.
Protesters who ask the minister’s heads on the streets, do; Bolsonarist parliamentarians who abhered on the Senate and House tables; The deputy son of the former president, who from Washington is dedicated to sticking the foreign onslaught to the court-and to the country; The father who, defeated at the polls, intended a blow, are enemies of democracy.
Fans and Servis to Trump will not hesitate to copy it if they are given a new opportunity to return to the Planalto Palace.
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