A Lawless President Seeks to Centralize His Power – Francis Fukuyama “What is going to prevent the United States from going the way of Hungary and becoming an openly authoritarian country?”

> The only remaining institutional check is the courts, which will have to decide on the dozens to lawsuits seeking to block implementation of Trump’s executive orders. This sets up a potential constitutional crisis if the president decides to defy a court decision he doesn’t like.

Or a hidden constitutional crisis if [SCOTUS is so afraid of Trump ignoring them that they give him what he wants on the key cases](https://www.aei.org/op-eds/the-trump-executive-orders-as-radical-constitutionalism/) (such cases not being policy issues like birthright citizenship but those pertaining to MAGA’s ability to stay in power)