Letter: 'Whatever one’s policy preferences, every American should wake up now to the fact that electing Donald Trump (again!) may well create another tragic example of how democracies die.'
Israel has no Constitution, and its Supreme Court is the only check on unbridled power by the elected majority. Netanyahu’s hard right wing coalition, which includes ultra-orthodox religious zealots, has begun to take legislative steps to eliminate the judiciary’s power to hold them in check.
Time will tell what the governing coalition will do with its new powers, but the prospects look ominous — for secular Jewish Israelis, for Arab citizens of Israel, for Palestinians in the West Bank, for LGBTQ people, for women, etc. The vast opposition that for many months has been protesting in Israel is facing the harsh reality that elections have consequences, sometimes existentially so.
Here in the U.S., we thankfully do have a Constitution creating structural, institutional checks on unbridled executive power. But Donald Trump, who so far appears poised to be the Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential election, has made no secret of his disdain for judges or juries that rule against him, for prosecutors who move to indict him, and for members of the media that dare to criticize him.
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