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And ironically, it is abortion opponents who spent decades railing against the antidemocratic federal courts who have invested the most in the federal judiciary, litigating about the fate of the Comstock Act, access to abortion pills, and much more.

These failures begin with an obsolete set of assumptions and a crisis in imagination about the strength of American democracy and its political and societal institutions, the permanence of the rule of law and respect for the Constitution, and the character of the American people and how tens of millions of them are authoritarians or otherwise sufficiently compelled towards such antidemocratic values, beliefs, and behavior to put an open authoritarian and autocrat back in the White House.

Bonta’s office called the order “unconstitutional, antidemocratic, and un-American,” and said it would cause California and other states “imminent and irreparable harm.”

Given the magnitude of the most recent antidemocratic actions by Donald Trump and his team, blaming them on the slippery slope created during the War on Terror years may seem like a distinct overreach.

In fact, the deluge of eye-opening, antidemocratic policies that we’ve witnessed in just the first 50 days of his presidency should be considered nothing short of a perverse escalation of the recent past.