@hankgreen.bsky.social did a very good video on this

First listen of the podcast for me- you have a really cool show here! Thanks for the episode.

Changes "The Supreme Court wants authoritarianism" into "maybe the Supreme Court wants authoritarianism, or maybe they're just unequipped to deal with the rise of authoritarianism since a lot of our systems are built on norms being followed".

Thank you @nytimes.com for actually kind of answering this question today on The Daily.

The answer doesn't make it less bad that it's happening, but does shed light on the why.