> sounds an awful lot like the motivated reasoning that brushes aside these structures in favor of simple authoritarianism.

You know that's a stretch.

Just because I think that no country should meddle in another's affair doesn't mean that I agree with whatever's happening down there.

>A president is still supposed to be subservient to the Constitution. Border guards as well. There was no referendum on getting rid of the Constitution.

The current administration is just the tip of the problem-berg, but if millions of people see it as normal and I see it as a problem, what should we do now ?