[verisimi]

How do you reject the excessive exercise of power? Its very hard to say. If all it takes is the declaration of an emergency and then people accept that declaration, I don't think you can.

" Is there some point at which people will start rejecting this arbitrary and excessive exercise of power?" Well, the truckers are trying, no?

[Overtonwindow]

For some reason your comment reminded me of the Reichstag fire decree. It’s worth reading on, how the government used an emergency protection order to go full throat to a dictatorship..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire#:~:text=The%2....