The US government is facing a crisis of legitimacy | Daniel Mendiola

As the constitutional order frays, the US could look to Brazil as a demonstration of a functioning democracy

Between anti-immigrant zeal and a general disdain for any rules whatsoever, the Trump administration has shredded the constitutional order that makes government legitimate.

This is now a legitimacy crisis.

Daniel Mendiola is a professor of Latin American history and migration studies at Vassar College