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Chief Justice John Roberts warned against personal attacks on the judiciary, telling an audience Tuesday that while criticism of opinions is fair game, “personally directed hostility” is dangerous and must stop.
Roberts did not mention Donald Trump by name and, as he so often does, he went out of his way to stress that the attacks he was referring to were coming from “not just any one political perspective.” However, the chief justice’s admonishment came weeks after Trump said that justices who ruled against his sweeping tariffs were an “embarrassment to their families.”



Surely small, regular violences committed by one person toward 340,000,000 people merit a large violence against that one person in retaliation?
Systematic dismantling of democracy is not a small violence.
Divided up among the hundreds of millions of individuals, it becomes small in a relative sense. Relative to something like the murder of an individual, the impact of dismantling democracy is small and protracted, but the largeness of the violence in aggregate is real and what my original post alludes to in applying it to an individual.