President Trump poses a greater threat to the rule of law than anything Americans have witnessed in generations. Surely, most Americans believe, such things could never happen in the United States. A quick glance around the world these days can be frightening for defenders of the rule of law: thousands of officially sanctioned extrajudicial killings in the Philippines under President Rodrigo Duterte lengthy prison sentences on fraudulent charges for two journalists reporting on ethnic cleansing of Rohingya in Myanmar the officially orchestrated torture and dismemberment of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul the imprisonment of hundreds of opposition politicians and journalists by President Recep Erdogan in Turkey government packing of the courts in Poland the criminalization of immigrant aid groups and the forced closing of Central European University in Hungary.
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