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In some corners of the world, America and Canada no longer stand as beacons of freedom, but as examples of what can happen when democracy is successfully attacked from within.

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The world has watched protests that revolved around everything from elections to COVID mandates — and they’ve anxiously watched our government’s responses to those protests.  Now it’s clear that our public conflicts have fanned the flames of power struggles already smoldering around the globe.

Take Brazil for instance.

Last Thursday, in a page from Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau’s playbook, Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes ordered the freezing of protesters’ bank accounts — to include individuals, truckers, and the companies they work for.  Why?  Because of “repeated abuse of the right to assemble.”