A defining characteristic of a developed country is that it has predictable and trustworthy systems.

In North America, conservatives are actively destabilising legal and political systems. Destabilisation isn't their actual goal. Rather, they want the systems reshaped to their will.

Yet the volatility they are forcing will have repercussions that they ultimately do not want, and ultimately cannot control.

In this way, they are dangerously close to manifesting everything they are afraid of.