This administration's collective assault on nonwhites - in particular refugees, migrants and immigrants from Latin America - as well as Muslims and other groups deemed to be "un-American" is one of the principal areas where its contempt for the law and democracy is most apparent.
The Trump administration's ultimate goal is a "permanent state of exception" in the service of racial authoritarianism. This strategic arbitrariness weakens and delegitimizes the rule of law until, at some point, it can be totally rejected and dispensed with.
As we have seen throughout Trump's presidency - and as we see now in Robert Mueller's report, with its extensive litany of borderline corruption and its numerous instances of blatant obstruction of justice - the president and his allies disregard the law whenever it is inconvenient, and enforce it with callous cruelty when it serves their goals.
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