Yeah, it’s hard to overhype this one. If you want a scary statement of totalitarian excuses, check out the text of the emergency order.

some members of the judiciary are working at cross purposes with the executive and legislature in the fight against terrorism and extremism, thereby weakening the government and the nation’s resolve and diluting the efficacy of its actions to control this menace.

… there has been increasing interference by some members of the judiciary in government policy, adversely affecting economic growth in particular.

Now we hear that rhetoric all the time here. It’s just there they use it as an excuse to actually impose martial law and imprison judges.

This raises an interesting question that I was far too chicken to post, because it is too complicated: how do we balance embracing tyrants vs. not embracing them? Clearly some times it is in our short-term tactical interest. But long-term strategic forecasts are grim.