This is something that's going to be a real problem in US politics after Trump is gone. How do you reverse the damage to institutions he's done without falling into the same trap? Perhaps the first step is naming it clearly, but that requires a lot of trust with a lot of competing publics.

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Every route out runs through offices whose legitimacy is the very thing in dispute. Follow the captured procedures from captured institutions, and the captors run down the clock. Step outside them and you hand your opponents a coup narrative, and a precedent.

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Poland’s government says it’s restoring the rule of law to a Tribunal politicised under PiS, but the opposition calls it a coup. Both say the constitution is on their side, but there’s no longer a referee both sides accept to settle it.

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As a con-goer for 15 years, I know what it's like to want a commission from artists you like and not be able to. I had to wait years for one artist before I finally commissioned him. At the very least, buy something from their table

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