‘Fair trial’ is more democratic checks and balances. But it originated (as all things do) in battles between…

‘Fair trial’ is more democratic checks and balances. But it originated (as all things do) in battles between the highest status members of societies. In the Western case, in the attempts by aristocracies to rein in the arbitrary power of Kings. 1/2 https://t.co/rTdt7sNF80

Democracy is not and has never been a movement of ‘the people’, which is an impossible fiction. It’s the managed rivalry of the highest status members of a society. Under Trump for example, that rivalry is now unmanaged. It’s not an ‘authoritarian’ takeover of democracy. /end