For what it is worth, I took a constitutional law course in the latter part of Obama’s second term.
The professor spent a lot of time talking about the accretion of power to the executive branch and very clearly posited that it was a certainty that we would have an issue with authoritarianism in the near future. I remember sitting in class (naively) thinking he was overstating the problem.
Good news though, that same professor has made a lot of headway in eliminating qualified immunity in a few states.
For what it is worth, I took a constitutional law course in the latter part of Obama’s second term.
The professor spent a lot of time talking about the accretion of power to the executive branch and very clearly posited that it was a certainty that we would have an issue with authoritarianism in the near future. I remember sitting in class (naively) thinking he was overstating the problem.
Good news though, that same professor has made a lot of headway in eliminating qualified immunity in a few states.