미국에 몰려오는 폭풍: 트럼프, 공화당을 광신적 기계로 변화시키다(America's gathering storm: Trump turns Republican Party into cult machine) > 호주뉴스

Under Trump's Presidency, the Republican Party turned into a cult-like herd largely ceasing to perform the role of a political party.

George Grundy continues his series on the collapse of American democracy in the lead-up to the 2024 Election. Read the first part here, part two here, part four here and part five here.

DONALD TRUMP’s efforts to attack, delay and dodge the legal system are just a part of his years-long effort to delegitimise the judiciary (a co-equal branch of American governance afforded equal power under the Constitution as Congress and the Presidency).

From his younger days associating with the mephistophelian Roy Cohn, Trump has used the courts as his plaything, denouncing any action against him as unfairly motivated and suing those with fewer resources in order to force submission.

This contempt for the law has been apparent from the start of Trump’s political career when he claimed that he could not get a fair hearing due to a judge’s Mexican heritage. Trump has been a prime mover in the Republican Party’s assault on judicial integrity and nowhere has the degradation of the instruments of state been more starkly illustrated than the collapse of confidence in the Supreme Court.