You ever heard the thing about how if you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water it'll jump out but if you put it in cold water and slowly turn up the heat it'll cook? That's us. We are cooked.
you are dramatically oversimplifying and/or misrepresenting glaring omissions/errors/accomodations of jurisprudence over the last several years. i'm not going to debate you on it - you can read any number of opinions/analyses/exposes on it from educated/scholarly/authoritative people.
I honestly don't feel like anyone feels like the water is heating up slowly. Just sitting here in a coffee shop for an hour, I've overheard about five different conversations about everything the current administration is screwing up, and I had another one at the bus stop this morning. People aren't unaware and they aren't happy.
Yet his approval rating is higher than its ever. There is a segment of the population that seems love the bull in the china shop approach to governance.
> I honestly don't feel like anyone feels like the water is heating up slowly.
that is the entire point of the metaphor/idiom/parable - you do not feel anything - until it's too late - you're dead or in jail or homeless or deported.
No, my point is that everyone feels the water being too hot already because it has happened quickly, not that nobody has noticed it heating up because it has happened too slowly.
It's more like draining the water in the pot and pouring in already-boiling water, than it is like heating it up slowly.