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A great deal has been said about Donald Trump’s violations of “democratic norms.” I agree with much of it.But the big problem with violating democratic norms — the unwritten customs and practices even political opponents traditionally abide by — is that once you’ve done it, everybody else wants to do it, too. This makes everything worse, because when the people most offended by Trump’s violations respond in kind, they not only contribute to the problem, they create incentives for Trump and his biggest supporters to keep doing it . . .. . . I don’t blame judges or anyone else for being disgusted with Trump’s rhetoric. But judges aren’t comedians or pundits. Their job is to follow the law.Trump doesn’t help by referring to his executive orders as a “ban” (so as to pretend he’s fulfilled a promise he could never keep). But the reality is that he abandoned the ban from the get-go. When judges pretend otherwise to prove their “wokeness,” they undermine democratic norms even further. And they give Trump and his boosters one more reason to screech that the courts are biased against him.
