If you want some concrete examples:
- Trump's attempted coup, the range of support it received, the lack of condemnation it received.
- Law's allowing things like running over protestors
- Law's with the transparent goal of suppressing voters
- Widespread support (not unjustified IMO) for stacking the supreme court
- Police refusing to enforce certain laws as a political stance (not because they legitimately think they're unlawful, just that they don't like them)
- (Justified) lack of trust in the police quickly trending higher
- (Justified?) lack of trust in the military to responsibly use tools you give it, and support for a functional military
- (Justified?) lack of faith in the border guards and the ability to pass reasonable immigration laws, to the point where many people are instead advocating for just not controlling the southern border.
Generally these (and more) all speak towards the institutions that make the US a functional country failing. The institutions that make the rules for the country are losing credibility, the forces that enforce the rules are losing credibility. Neither of those are things that a country can survive forever.
The support for packing the supreme court is mostly at the fringes of the party, and there’s always been some support.
There are almost no laws with any kind of support that have transparent goals of suppressing voters. Election security laws are clearly necessary after the doubt the democrats had it was secure in 2016, and the doubts the republicans had in 2020.
Laws absolving drivers of hitting protesters don’t exist. Laws absolving drivers of driving through violent rioters do, and such laws are necessary. I saw a a riot with my own eyes where a half dozen cars were flipped and destroyed, and anyone trying to drive through the intersection had people jumping on their car and smashing the windows. These laws are good.
