True, famously, this administration is strictly bound by laws. Don't worry guys, we're safe.

One inferred point of the article is that eroding the first amendment makes the rest less imposing to circumvent.

I think it's the other way around: giving an insurrectionist the most powerful office in the land, a violation of the 14th, is a recipe for wanton malfeasance in office. All the other violations were made possible by that first one.

They're already pitching the idea that the 22nd amendment only prevents someone who had two consecutive terms from running again. Looking at the language of the amendment, I have no idea how they can justify that. But stranger things have happened recently. :-/