Why the latest escalation in the United States is more than political conflict
Introduction: When Power Moves Faster Than Law
The decline of democracies rarely begins with their abolition.
It begins with shortcuts.
With the moment when governments argue that extraordinary times require extraordinary measures. That procedures are too slow. That oversight is an obstacle. That security must come before law, jurisdiction, and accountability.
The United States knows this logic from its own history.
From the frontier era, when federal marshals enforced law by discretion rather than due process; through the Civil War; through McCarthyism and COINTELPRO; to the post-9/11 years: whenever state power ceased to be treated as an exception and became a political instrument, the system lost its balance.
The U.S. Constitution was written precisely to prevent this.
Not out of idealism, but out of deep distrust of power.
Not to make governance efficient, but to keep it limited.
Against this historical backdrop,…
