Authoritarian societies depend on people ratting each other out for activities that were recently legal—and it's already happening in the US.
teachers. With the Republican Party increasingly embracing authoritarianism, this is likely just the start.
“It incentivizes private enforcement of moral norms,” Ginsburg says. “That’s very corrosive. It’s a process that is undermining the ability of society to function in the traditional way that societies do.” “The Supreme Court may facilitate the undermining of democracy from below through the general stance of, ‘Well, that’s not our problem,’” Ginsburg says.
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