> the people resisting have to win every battle; the people trying to introduce such legislation only need to win one.
To some extent this is true I suppose, but these laws are not (yet) irreversible. The people introducing them have to keep winning for them to remain on the books.
They haven't suspended elections, they haven't outlawed protests, they aren't sending dissidents to camps. When these things happen that's when the decline gets hard to reverse.
To some extent this is true I suppose, but these laws are not (yet) irreversible. The people introducing them have to keep winning for them to remain on the books.