This is gps, the Global Public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and Around The World. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you from new york. Today on the program, the knesset votes to take away a key power of israels Supreme Court, and as Benjamin Netanyahu urges calm, the nations Political Center and left erupt in anger. Ill talk to the New York Times Paul Friedman about the politics involved and with his colleague Emily Bazilon about the legal issues. Then the secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on the good news and the bad news from americas Southern Border. Finally, did President Putin lose or gain power after prigozhins failed mutiny . Ill ask russian journalist in exile mikhail zigov. But first heres my take. The mysterious disappearance of chinas Foreign Minister qin gang is a timely reminder that the future of u. S. China relations will be determined not just by american policy and whats happening domestically in the United States such as the president i
H hungary and poland and other countries and turkey and the attack on the power of the courts to try to sweep the judges out of the way is a sign of trouble for democracy and in some other countries, it has been the first step toward a slide from democracy to autocracy. and how should we think about america because there is this fear on the american left largely that you have this very conservative supreme court that is up ending a lot of settled law in america. right. we ve been talking about what happens when the courts become too weak. it is also possible for courts to become too strong. so in the united states we have a feature that no other country has. we have life tenure for judges. that means the supreme court justices can sit for 30 or 40 years. we are having a huge amount of
Believe in democracy. and what kills me, chris, these are the legacy of the greatest generation. i mean, people like my dad who was just so calm, three years in the south pacific, they came back, they passed off this great democratic legacy. and these people can t even get their com shop to put out a statement saying who won the presidential race? they re not being asked to charge a machine gun, take a beach. it s a pretty low level of commitment. and yet they failed. and it s shocking and depressing. but it s a reality. where does it lead us? you know, i don t think we know. i think if you look at how modern democracies fade, they fade not in coups, usually, it s not like in chile. it s like h hungary. they fade at the ballot box and